Sure, there are a lot of counterexamples. Mozilla for one is a huge one. Mozilla is easy lightyears ahead of any browser. Go OSS!
However, there are also a plethora of examples where he is basically right. Gnome and KDE are great examples. Gnome and KDE bring very, very little to the table. Instead, they are both trying to copy other proprietary GUIs in order to give Linux a more mainstream look and feel. I wish someone would just create a session manager that brings something truly innovative to the world of GUIs.
But a consciousness wasn't destroyed. When you're sleeping, your mind has no conscious thought processes going on. It is not a consciousness in that state.
I'm a security technologist. My career has been a series of generalizations. I started working in cryptography: mathematical security. Then I realized that all the cryptography in the world won't help if the computer is insecure, and all the computer security won't help if the network is insecure. Since then, I have been concentrating more on the social and economic aspects of security, realizing that all the technology in the world won't help if those aren't done right.
More on my background can be found on schneier.com
NSA licensed Certicom's EC patents for $25 million last year, and recently announced the new US government standard for key agreement and digital signatures, called Suite B. It uses Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) and Elliptic Curve Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (ECMQV) for key agreement, and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) for signature generation/verification. Do you think that NSA is promoting ECC based crypto because they cannot crack RSA/DSA based one ?
Although I wrote that in 1999, I am still skeptical about elliptic curves.
Or maybe just because they can crack RSA/DSA they prefer to protect US business with ECC (supposed to be harder to crack)?
With sufficient key lengths, all of this is uncrackable. I don't believe that the NSA has any secret mathematics that they use to break RSA/DSA or ECC.
Would a quantum computer do the job ?
In theory, yes. In practice, we have no idea how to build one to do it. Maybe in fifty years. Or twenty-five.
Some time ago you co-authored a paper on software monopoly risks. What about crypto monopoly? Don't you think that having just a couple of public-key algorithms based on the same math problem could lead to a catastrophe if cracked ?
The security advantages of a common cryptographic algorithm far outweigh the disadvantages. I've written about that as well:
What would you do if you found a solution to the factorization problem?
Any cryptographer, if they found something so significant as a solution of the factorization, would publish their results. Such a discovery would likely result in profound changes in how we view number theory, and would be the mathematical discovery of the decade...and maybe even more important.
Since most crypto protocols on the internet, such as SSL or SSH, uses public-keys to build a secure channel, wouldn't a unexpected public disclosure create a chaos on the internet ?
No. Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet.
Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.
In the security community there are various ways of thinking about vulnerabilities disclosure (public-, full-, responsible-, no-). What is the situation in the crypto community ? What type of disclosure process is there ?
Most security professionals believe in full disclosure, and cryptographers are no exception. The advancement of the science is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
Why is often used a money-rewarded challenge to verify a crypto algorithm?
Because it's free consulting work, and money is an attempt to add some financial incentive. Most of the time it's a sham. While there are some legitimate contests, most are just attempts to gain publicity.
Recently some papers addressing hash functions were published, and you suggested on your blog that it's time to get to work replacing SHA. You wrote: "The NIST already has standards for longer -- and harder to break -- ha
You hit the nail on the head. They support all popular formats. Whatever the merits of Ogg, it still doesn't have the kind of penetration of the other formats. To call Ogg popular is ludicrous. Even among the technologically minded community, it isn't that popular.
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The myth actually goes that the Greek soldiers reversed their shields and polished the insides of them to use as mirrors. As far as the focal length, I'm not sure what the focal length of an ancient greek shield is, but I'd wager it is fairly long.
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The Mythbusters did a horrible job at busting that myth. The myth was that Archimedes had the soldiers uses their shields as mirrors to focus light on the ships. Mythbusters almost did a great job, but forgot one important thing. A shield is concave, which has the amazing property of focusing light. The Mytbusters used flat mirrors.
If networks posted their shows, with the ads intact and maybe a few extra, I'd download it in a heartbeat. It'd sure beat the hell out of finding a torrent (especcially with the sudden lack of good torrent directories). Sure, I can fast forward through commercials, but I could do that if I used TiVo or if I recorded it.
Now that we've found the 42nd Mersenne Prime, we can cure cancer, cure AIDs, solve all NP problems in deterministic polynomial time, travel faster than light, and solve world hunger.
That's true if you're always uploading just as much as you download. The vast majority of people will be mostly downloading, so the half-duplex won't half the speed.
Implement Lingua::Romana::Perligata in an MMORPG, or something similar. Create your own mystical language for you RPG and then create a programming language that uses your mystical language's grammar. Then have the RPG world itself be an interpreter for this mystical language.
Of course, you'd have to implement some sort of incentive for magicians keeping their programs secret. You wouldn't want Merlin spreading around his ultimate destructo spell, would you?
If your mobo doesn't support registered memory, it just won't use the register. As far as I know, putting registered memory won't do anything for or against you.
I'm always a big supporter of innovation and the Transmeta processor was certainly incredibly innovative. It's a true shame that the processor market is dominated by a company that hasn't had an innovation in over twenty years (Intel) and a company that only makes very small innovations (AMD).
Wait... you just made a critical error. You're assuming Lucas actually cares about anything in the EU and that the prequels aren't taking a huge giant dump on the entire Extended Universe.
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Sure, there are a lot of counterexamples. Mozilla for one is a huge one. Mozilla is easy lightyears ahead of any browser. Go OSS!
However, there are also a plethora of examples where he is basically right. Gnome and KDE are great examples. Gnome and KDE bring very, very little to the table. Instead, they are both trying to copy other proprietary GUIs in order to give Linux a more mainstream look and feel. I wish someone would just create a session manager that brings something truly innovative to the world of GUIs.
Most systems don't allow empty passwords.
But a consciousness wasn't destroyed. When you're sleeping, your mind has no conscious thought processes going on. It is not a consciousness in that state.
So, I'll take a test and just whip out my cell phone and send a question I'm having problem on to this service and get back an answer. Awesome!
Could you introduce yourself ?
I'm a security technologist. My career has been a series of generalizations. I started working in cryptography: mathematical security. Then I realized that all the cryptography in the world won't help if the computer is insecure, and all the computer security won't help if the network is insecure. Since then, I have been concentrating more on the social and economic aspects of security, realizing that all the technology in the world won't help if those aren't done right.
More on my background can be found on schneier.com
NSA licensed Certicom's EC patents for $25 million last year, and recently announced the new US government standard for key agreement and digital signatures, called Suite B. It uses Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman
(ECDH) and Elliptic Curve Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (ECMQV) for key agreement,
and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) for signature generation/verification. Do you think that NSA is promoting ECC based crypto because they cannot crack RSA/DSA based one ?
I do not. I believe the NSA believes that ECC is strong. I wrote about ECC here:
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9911.html#Elli pticCurvePublic-KeyCryptography
Although I wrote that in 1999, I am still skeptical about elliptic curves.
Or maybe just because they can crack RSA/DSA they prefer to protect US business with ECC (supposed to be harder to crack)?
With sufficient key lengths, all of this is uncrackable. I don't believe that the NSA has any secret mathematics that they use to break RSA/DSA or ECC.
Would a quantum computer do the job ?
In theory, yes. In practice, we have no idea how to build one to do it. Maybe in fifty years. Or twenty-five.
Some time ago you co-authored a paper on software monopoly risks. What about crypto monopoly? Don't you think that having just a couple of public-key algorithms based on the same math problem could lead to a catastrophe if cracked ?
The security advantages of a common cryptographic algorithm far outweigh the disadvantages. I've written about that as well:
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9904.html#diff erent.
What would you do if you found a solution to the factorization problem?
Any cryptographer, if they found something so significant as a solution of the factorization, would publish their results. Such a discovery would likely result in profound changes in how we view number theory, and would be the mathematical discovery of the decade...and maybe even more important.
Since most crypto protocols on the internet, such as SSL or SSH, uses public-keys to build a secure channel, wouldn't a unexpected public disclosure create a chaos on the internet ?
No. Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet.
Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.
In the security community there are various ways of thinking about vulnerabilities disclosure (public-, full-, responsible-, no-). What is the situation in the crypto community ? What type of disclosure process is there ?
Most security professionals believe in full disclosure, and cryptographers are no exception. The advancement of the science is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
Why is often used a money-rewarded challenge to verify a crypto algorithm?
Because it's free consulting work, and money is an attempt to add some financial incentive. Most of the time it's a sham. While there are some legitimate contests, most are just attempts to gain publicity.
Recently some papers addressing hash functions were published, and you suggested on your blog that it's time to get to work replacing SHA. You wrote: "The NIST already has standards for longer -- and harder to break -- ha
You hit the nail on the head. They support all popular formats. Whatever the merits of Ogg, it still doesn't have the kind of penetration of the other formats. To call Ogg popular is ludicrous. Even among the technologically minded community, it isn't that popular.
The myth actually goes that the Greek soldiers reversed their shields and polished the insides of them to use as mirrors. As far as the focal length, I'm not sure what the focal length of an ancient greek shield is, but I'd wager it is fairly long.
The Mythbusters did a horrible job at busting that myth. The myth was that Archimedes had the soldiers uses their shields as mirrors to focus light on the ships. Mythbusters almost did a great job, but forgot one important thing. A shield is concave, which has the amazing property of focusing light. The Mytbusters used flat mirrors.
Given the choice of running a full featured OS with a highly polished GUI or Linux, I think I'd go with the former.
01 if by LAND, 10 if by SEA
Sadly, it appears that VIRGOHI21 was a casualty of the Photino Bird's campaign against baryonic matter.
I hope someone gets the reference.
If networks posted their shows, with the ads intact and maybe a few extra, I'd download it in a heartbeat. It'd sure beat the hell out of finding a torrent (especcially with the sudden lack of good torrent directories). Sure, I can fast forward through commercials, but I could do that if I used TiVo or if I recorded it.
Now that we've found the 42nd Mersenne Prime, we can cure cancer, cure AIDs, solve all NP problems in deterministic polynomial time, travel faster than light, and solve world hunger.
Thank you Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search!
Says the anonymous coward. It's clear you have no idea what duplex is.
That's true if you're always uploading just as much as you download. The vast majority of people will be mostly downloading, so the half-duplex won't half the speed.
Implement Lingua::Romana::Perligata in an MMORPG, or something similar. Create your own mystical language for you RPG and then create a programming language that uses your mystical language's grammar. Then have the RPG world itself be an interpreter for this mystical language.
Of course, you'd have to implement some sort of incentive for magicians keeping their programs secret. You wouldn't want Merlin spreading around his ultimate destructo spell, would you?
Shouldn't that he 4.6 THz?
No no no. You got it all wrong.
In Soviet Russia, stupid "In Soviet Russia..." jokes make you.
Are you implying LInux is the best OS on the planet?
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Good one.
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I'm LOLing here. Thanks.
If your mobo doesn't support registered memory, it just won't use the register. As far as I know, putting registered memory won't do anything for or against you.
99.9% of all traffic is illegal in channels trafficing illegal stuff.
DUH!
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I'm always a big supporter of innovation and the Transmeta processor was certainly incredibly innovative. It's a true shame that the processor market is dominated by a company that hasn't had an innovation in over twenty years (Intel) and a company that only makes very small innovations (AMD).
Oh, sure, he changed 'kak' to 'cock', but the pronunciation is the same! That hoe!
Wait... you just made a critical error. You're assuming Lucas actually cares about anything in the EU and that the prequels aren't taking a huge giant dump on the entire Extended Universe.