Re:Not a problem (yet)
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If your password
foobizbang
hashes to and I find a collision using this attack then I can enter my collision
a@#K$jjfksl
at the login prompt and gain entry as the hash of my password will match the stored hash of your real password.
from the article it is not clear whether you can retrieve a collision from only a hash or do you need original data (say, my real password) to produce a collision.
I guess we'll have to wait for original paper to find out.
Get real. 90% of people get they browsing done without tabs just fine.
I, for one, find tabs in a browser annoying. Mostly for fact that I got used to closing whole window which is faster with a mouse then closing a tab. (I browse with mouse and don't go to keyboard most of the time)
I get my 'tabs' in taskbar if I opened multiple windows. Same thing, different location.
Even most directional antennas will not give you linear 'watt to distance' amplification.
In worst case it is a power^1/3. So for 40 milliwatts to 1 watt amplification you'll get some 30x distance (at worst), but never 2500x, unless some wicked atmospheric conditions happen.
Even shape of that thing can influence its trajectory because it may reflect less light on one side then on the other... and those tiny forces add up over 20+ years.
There are so many factors we don't know after 2-3 sightings of such a meteor to make more accurate prediction.
Tell that news to someone working in photoshop or dreamweaver or programming windows apps for living (something like 70% of programmers are developing for windoze now, today).
Yeah Linux needs bigger market share and it will do good to all of us but TCO for many companies tied to an OS by definition makes no sense at all.
Authors of that analysis took really hard way to crack icc binary timestamp. Takes about 2 hours to get ICC java client, find java timeseal class and disassemble it. Same is true for FICS (freechess.org). Been there, done that (also once wrote a client app for both servers).
While writing timestamp version with public/private key authentication would work against snooping CC numbers, lag info can always be altered with simpler means then cracking timestamp. For apps using local clock system calls can always be hooked/intercepted (someone did that in Linux about a year ago)
Once referenced photon twin is limited in some space (eg "bouncing back and forth in some cavity ") our 'signal' photon loses its entangled characteristic.
Besides how would you tell if photon hit a detector or just some rock?
I suspect true question is 'why so little people switch to Linux desktop' (outside of/. crowd that is), not if Linux is ready for average desktop (because it is).
Now I'll speak for myself: I tried switching to Linux 3 times during last 4 years and every time I come back to windows frustrated with linux for 2 reasons(I tried RH, SuSe, Slackware, but that is beyond the point here). I was frustrated because it took me forever to setup my box the way I like (no, I don't remember all the command line switches nor what goes and where in.config files)
Biggest reason is software or lack of it. 3DMAX, DreamWeaver, games. Some of sw has their linux equivalents but... those are available on windoze!
5 years ago reasons to use Linux were Apache, MySql,Perl, command line tools. Now I have Cygwin and all the above running great under win. Firefox is great and kills IE hands down, too.
My conclusion will sound like troll here: Open Source kills linux desktop; I have less and less reasons to boot to linux now then I had 4 years ago. In the meantime windows got a lot more stable while Gnome and KDE got a lot more bloated and I had to get used to ctrl-alt-backspace.
Why would I advocate Linux on a desktop while I myself use windows then? (isn't that true for many slashdot readers...)
I have been reading that linux on desktop has been growing since 1998 and I am growing bitter seeing little of that. So I decided to find out what is Linux desktop share today.
So maybe I can figure Linux %% out from some browser stats... http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm gives some info but its stat sources may produce rather biased results (imo).
Since Google is Google is Google I trust it. So here's what I see: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html Can't be Linux is only 1%... lets look for something else.
I give up here. Now before you mark me as flamebait - I know there are some possible explanations like faking UA to prettend windoze.
However I wonder what is reality: 3.2%(OSnews estimate) or 1%-0.28%(Google+some webcounter log data). That would be some 3/4 linux users faking UA.
Ever wondered why the owner of telephone account has to pay the tax for 911? His phone will most likely be used to help someone else.
State sales tax is supposed to be for state residents. Why then I can't get tax break in New York if I show New Jersey drivers licence?
Blank CD has a value of say, $0.10 After recording its value increases at least 10x
I'm fine with renaming tax a levy and paying it for blank media as long as none of it goes to Britney.
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If your password foobizbang hashes to and I find a collision using this attack then I can enter my collision a@#K$jjfksl at the login prompt and gain entry as the hash of my password will match the stored hash of your real password.
from the article it is not clear whether you can retrieve a collision from only a hash or do you need original data (say, my real password) to produce a collision.
I guess we'll have to wait for original paper to find out.
Are you trying to say that those of us who already like tabbed browsing will be switching to msie if it implemented it?
:)
Get real. 90% of people get they browsing done without tabs just fine.
I, for one, find tabs in a browser annoying. Mostly for fact that I got used to closing whole window which is faster with a mouse then closing a tab. (I browse with mouse and don't go to keyboard most of the time)
I get my 'tabs' in taskbar if I opened multiple windows. Same thing, different location.
You can always use another picture to encrypt/decrypt your message. Like xor both corresponding LSBs
Not to mention "its thousands of characters" are actually just below 900...
Even most directional antennas will not give you linear 'watt to distance' amplification.
In worst case it is a power^1/3. So for 40 milliwatts to 1 watt amplification you'll get some 30x distance (at worst), but never 2500x, unless some wicked atmospheric conditions happen.
the wheel with rim and a hub and spokes between them is according to uspto someones intellectual property: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm &r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5707114.WKU.&OS=PN/5707114&RS=PN/ 5707114
Even shape of that thing can influence its trajectory because it may reflect less light on one side then on the other... and those tiny forces add up over 20+ years.
There are so many factors we don't know after 2-3 sightings of such a meteor to make more accurate prediction.
... or just use slashdot third story+comments from last friday starting from letter x as a one-time pad. Or NYTimes.com or archive.org or...
No need for safe delivery.
Tell that news to someone working in photoshop or dreamweaver or programming windows apps for living (something like 70% of programmers are developing for windoze now, today).
Yeah Linux needs bigger market share and it will do good to all of us but TCO for many companies tied to an OS by definition makes no sense at all.
Authors of that analysis took really hard way to crack icc binary timestamp. Takes about 2 hours to get ICC java client, find java timeseal class and disassemble it. Same is true for FICS (freechess.org).
Been there, done that (also once wrote a client app for both servers).
While writing timestamp version with public/private key authentication would work against snooping CC numbers, lag info can always be altered with simpler means then cracking timestamp. For apps using local clock system calls can always be hooked/intercepted (someone did that in Linux about a year ago)
Once referenced photon twin is limited in some space (eg "bouncing back and forth in some cavity ") our 'signal' photon loses its entangled characteristic.
Besides how would you tell if photon hit a detector or just some rock?
I suspect true question is 'why so little people switch to Linux desktop' (outside of /. crowd that is), not if Linux is ready for average desktop (because it is).
.config files)
Now I'll speak for myself: I tried switching to Linux 3 times during last 4 years and every time I come back to windows frustrated with linux for 2 reasons(I tried RH, SuSe, Slackware, but that is beyond the point here). I was frustrated because it took me forever to setup my box the way I like (no, I don't remember all the command line switches nor what goes and where in
Biggest reason is software or lack of it. 3DMAX, DreamWeaver, games. Some of sw has their linux equivalents but... those are available on windoze!
5 years ago reasons to use Linux were Apache, MySql,Perl, command line tools. Now I have Cygwin and all the above running great under win. Firefox is great and kills IE hands down, too.
My conclusion will sound like troll here: Open Source kills linux desktop; I have less and less reasons to boot to linux now then I had 4 years ago.
In the meantime windows got a lot more stable while Gnome and KDE got a lot more bloated and I had to get used to ctrl-alt-backspace.
Why would I advocate Linux on a desktop while I myself use windows then? (isn't that true for many slashdot readers...)
Hmm after short search I found no antiglare contact lenses in USPTO database... time to go and fill up my 3000 patent quota
First thing I found was http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=6013 So far, so good: Linux has 3.2% of desktop share and passed Apple according to that. Another good read is http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/32706.htm l. No definite answer there. A quote: 'According to The Linux Counter, there are probably somewhere between 2,747,850 and 68,689,500 Linux users worldwide.' Great.
So maybe I can figure Linux %% out from some browser stats... http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm gives some info but its stat sources may produce rather biased results (imo). Since Google is Google is Google I trust it. So here's what I see: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html Can't be Linux is only 1%... lets look for something else.
Next thing I found thecounter.com - a web util which lets you add counter to your pages, they also publish stats from their hits. If you want to take 2 minutes and compare 2004 march results (http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2004/March/browse r.php) and eg 2003 january results (http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2003/January/brow ser.php) then you may see strange things there: linux users went down from some 0.42% to 0.29%.
I give up here. Now before you mark me as flamebait - I know there are some possible explanations like faking UA to prettend windoze. However I wonder what is reality: 3.2%(OSnews estimate) or 1%-0.28%(Google+some webcounter log data). That would be some 3/4 linux users faking UA.
Ever wondered why the owner of telephone account has to pay the tax for 911? His phone will most likely be used to help someone else.
State sales tax is supposed to be for state residents. Why then I can't get tax break in New York if I show New Jersey drivers licence?
Blank CD has a value of say, $0.10 After recording its value increases at least 10x
I'm fine with renaming tax a levy and paying it for blank media as long as none of it goes to Britney.