No new laws have been created, all the judge did was spell out Spanish law to the RIAA, ie. that non-profit copying isn't illegal here and never has been.
It's nothing to do with common sense or otherwise. You can only be prosecuted for breaking laws and Spanish law currently says that non-profit copying of media is ok.
Did the people who wrote that law envisage digital media and P2P networks? I guess not... but that doesn't change the letter of the law.
The RIAS's only option now is to try get the laws changed in their favor (which they were probably already doing even before this judgement), that way they can fine Spaniards $2,000,000 for copying a few songs just like in the civilized world.
The law in Spain is that any non-profit copying of material is OK. All the judge has done is make it clear to the RIAA that P2P involves no exchange of money so therefore it's legal under Spanish law.
They might have a brand new super-exploit ready to go. This world-wide-reformat would get rid of competitors and sanitize the machines ready for their new overlords.
They already know how to remove it. Microsoft malware remover says it's been removing MyDoom for many moons.
If MyDoom is still rampant it's because the people aren't running Microsoft update and their antivirus has been subverted and also isn't working/updating properly. Don't act surprised, I see a good percentage of machines in exactly this state.
Good riddance to such machines, I say. The world needs a wake up call. I know plenty of seemingly intelligent people who say "so what?" when I tell them their machine might be infected. So long as they can still surf for porn and play games they just don't care about viruses.
If the MyDoom people have a new exploit lined up then a reformat of all those machines is just a way of removing the competition and getting the machines back to a known state.
I'll start buying CDS again when they print on the cover how much money the artist is going to receive from the sale and I can see it's a decent chunk of the money.
(Like cdbaby.com does - I buy from them...)
He used to work for Microsoft where he spent his time adding "can execute code" to all their media file formats. Now he's at Apple (and continuing the good work...)
AES-256 is really AES-128 in disguise. The only difference is that instead of having a single 128-bit key you alternate between the two halves of the 256 bit key at each step of the encryption process (ok, it's not a simple swap but you get the idea). This messing about with the key is what caused the weakness - it introduced a pattern into what should be a patternless output.
...and when I say "strongest" I mean in a pure math sort of way.
Any attack which starts with things like "first you encrypt 2^128 carefully chosen plaintexts and store them in a hash table" isn't really an attack you should worry about.
I'm gonna need a citation for that one. I never heard of known plaintext attacks on AES (and it wouldn't have certified by NSA if they existed).
Yes, I googled "aes128 known plaintext" - got nothing. I think you're making it up.
That's the maximum, the average would be half that.
...unless they're expecting you, in which case they can put the key towards the end of the keyspace to make it take longer. You could of course anticipate that move and start searching at the end but in return they could anticipate that and put it at the beginning. It's a Sicilian mind game.
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How will other countries "follow suit"?
No new laws have been created, all the judge did was spell out Spanish law to the RIAA, ie. that non-profit copying isn't illegal here and never has been.
It's nothing to do with common sense or otherwise. You can only be prosecuted for breaking laws and Spanish law currently says that non-profit copying of media is ok.
... but that doesn't change the letter of the law.
Did the people who wrote that law envisage digital media and P2P networks? I guess not
The RIAS's only option now is to try get the laws changed in their favor (which they were probably already doing even before this judgement), that way they can fine Spaniards $2,000,000 for copying a few songs just like in the civilized world.
The law in Spain is that any non-profit copying of material is OK. All the judge has done is make it clear to the RIAA that P2P involves no exchange of money so therefore it's legal under Spanish law.
(IANAL but I live in Spain...)
They might have a brand new super-exploit ready to go. This world-wide-reformat would get rid of competitors and sanitize the machines ready for their new overlords.
They already know how to remove it. Microsoft malware remover says it's been removing MyDoom for many moons. If MyDoom is still rampant it's because the people aren't running Microsoft update and their antivirus has been subverted and also isn't working/updating properly. Don't act surprised, I see a good percentage of machines in exactly this state. Good riddance to such machines, I say. The world needs a wake up call. I know plenty of seemingly intelligent people who say "so what?" when I tell them their machine might be infected. So long as they can still surf for porn and play games they just don't care about viruses. If the MyDoom people have a new exploit lined up then a reformat of all those machines is just a way of removing the competition and getting the machines back to a known state.
Um, I'm pretty sure they're not proposing this as a consumer vehicle. It's just an experiment.
The entire car weighs less than an average American.
FTFY.
Me? I think I'd rather explode in a quick hydrogen blast then burn to death in a gasoline fire.
Um, this is a Veyron convertible. It's different than the old one.
I'll start buying CDS again when they print on the cover how much money the artist is going to receive from the sale and I can see it's a decent chunk of the money. (Like cdbaby.com does - I buy from them...)
Even better: 1) Record a crappy song, upload it to iTunes 2) Get every iPhone in the USA to "buy" a copy. 3) Babeland
Ummm, carriers stand to profit from this so why would they?
He used to work for Microsoft where he spent his time adding "can execute code" to all their media file formats. Now he's at Apple (and continuing the good work...)
Um, he didn't say "dev", he said "designer". He's doomed, right?
Grover's algorithm doesn't help with block ciphers. AES is secure from quantum attack.
Moore never said that, he said something about speed/price. Computers may cost $0.00001 in 60 years time but they're unlikely to be 2^39 times faster.
Um, the title of the paper is "Related-key Cryptanalysis of the Full AES-192 and AES-256". I'm guessing AES-192 is affected by this.
]"why would this NOT affect 128 bit AES?"
AES-256 is really AES-128 in disguise. The only difference is that instead of having a single 128-bit key you alternate between the two halves of the 256 bit key at each step of the encryption process (ok, it's not a simple swap but you get the idea). This messing about with the key is what caused the weakness - it introduced a pattern into what should be a patternless output.
AES128 doesn't do this so it's immune.
...and when I say "strongest" I mean in a pure math sort of way.
Any attack which starts with things like "first you encrypt 2^128 carefully chosen plaintexts and store them in a hash table" isn't really an attack you should worry about.
The NSA only employs geniuses, not gods. How about we wait 24 hours and see how they respond....?
I'm gonna need a citation for that one. I never heard of known plaintext attacks on AES (and it wouldn't have certified by NSA if they existed). Yes, I googled "aes128 known plaintext" - got nothing. I think you're making it up.
Ok, sorry, didn't know about that attack. Still, the new attack looks more practical than the old one (aside from being better...!)
That's the maximum, the average would be half that.
...unless they're expecting you, in which case they can put the key towards the end of the keyspace to make it take longer. You could of course anticipate that move and start searching at the end but in return they could anticipate that and put it at the beginning. It's a Sicilian mind game.
No, 119 to 110.5 is the amount they predict this attack could be improved with more work.
If it reduces an attack 256-bit AES to 2^119 complexity then it's 2^137 times better, and 2^137 times better is half a metric asston.
Quantum computers won't do much to break block ciphers, they'll only be useful against ciphers which rely on finding factors of large numbers.
The real-world applications for quantum computers are very limited.