Yeah, but you don't know if you're talking directly to the other party, or whether there is someone in the middle, talking to the both of you, and listening.
DH is a way to exchange an encryption key over a public network, but it doesn't tell you who you are talking to. GSM calls are never point to point, so there is always a "man in the middle".
I'm not saying it's necessarily snake oil, but the lack of any details certainly doesn't inspire any confidence.
Well, if nothing else, the potential customers would go to sf.net and download the stuff for free. To quote Eben Moglen:
I have assisted free software developers other than the FSF to deal with such problems, which we have resolved--since the criminal infringer would not voluntarily desist and, in the cases I have in mind, legal technicalities prevented actual criminal prosecution of the violators--by talking to redistributors and potential customers. ``Why would you want to pay serious money,'' we have asked, ``for software that infringes our license and will bog you down in complex legal problems, when you can have the real thing for free?'' Customers have never failed to see the pertinence of the question. The stealing of free software is one place where, indeed, crime doesn't pay.
What the hell, I'll plug my own site: http://www.actilink.nl -- it's not social at all, you just store your own bookmarks. It's fast, and it syncs with Firefox via an extension.
Item: Sending mail and checking received mail for spam involves DNS lookups. If you send and/or receive a lot of email, you need to do a lot of DNS lookups.
I used to run a qmail server for my personal domain. Qmail accepts mail first and asks questions later - that is to say, it doesn't reject invalid addresses during the SMTP session, it bounces them back later.
The result - thousands and thousands of spams to made up usernames.
I've patched qmail since then, but they keep coming in every day.
If you find out, let me know... I first heard of POV from an article in PC Format (I think it was called), where he explained how to make his Jack in the Box image (can't find it online right now).
This was in the 486 era, where the final picture took *days* to render. He's been my hero ever since, but I'm damned if I know where he went.
Of course, when I finally got my 486 so I could try it myself, it turned out to be a little more difficult than I thought...
D M is a common inscription on Roman gravestones (can't quite remember what it stood for, something to do with the gods of death), which are also usually full of cryptic abbreviations, in order to save space... "Gaius" becoming "C.", that sort of thing.
It's the default filler text used when someone needs a bit of text, for example for demonstrating a typeface or page layout. See this Straight Dope article for more info.
This has been widely known outside the US for ages, which is why nobody uses them there. See http://www.skepdic.com/polygrap.html for a thorough discussion.
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I'll just stop logging in on web sites until they fix this gaping security hole. Right.
Good point. Is there any way for one party to force the use of a particular key in DH?
It's interesting to see how quickly you go from simple theory to implementation details in cryptography...
Yeah, but you don't know if you're talking directly to the other party, or whether there is someone in the middle, talking to the both of you, and listening.
DH is a way to exchange an encryption key over a public network, but it doesn't tell you who you are talking to. GSM calls are never point to point, so there is always a "man in the middle".
I'm not saying it's necessarily snake oil, but the lack of any details certainly doesn't inspire any confidence.
It doesn't mean anything.
Yeah, and I wish they'd done Africa with glaciers.
What the hell, I'll plug my own site: http://www.actilink.nl -- it's not social at all, you just store your own bookmarks. It's fast, and it syncs with Firefox via an extension.
IMHO, it sucks less than the competition.
Item: Sending mail and checking received mail for spam involves DNS lookups. If you send and/or receive a lot of email, you need to do a lot of DNS lookups.
Item: Spammers use nonexistent domains.
Where would we be without eWeek?
You know, that's not a bad Firefox slogan.
I think you just coined the term "psychophant"... I'm going to use that. Thanks.
I used to run a qmail server for my personal domain. Qmail accepts mail first and asks questions later - that is to say, it doesn't reject invalid addresses during the SMTP session, it bounces them back later.
The result - thousands and thousands of spams to made up usernames.
I've patched qmail since then, but they keep coming in every day.
If you find out, let me know... I first heard of POV from an article in PC Format (I think it was called), where he explained how to make his Jack in the Box image (can't find it online right now).
This was in the 486 era, where the final picture took *days* to render. He's been my hero ever since, but I'm damned if I know where he went.
Of course, when I finally got my 486 so I could try it myself, it turned out to be a little more difficult than I thought...
D M is a common inscription on Roman gravestones (can't quite remember what it stood for, something to do with the gods of death), which are also usually full of cryptic abbreviations, in order to save space... "Gaius" becoming "C.", that sort of thing.
Frankly, I don't see what's so interesting.
Billy Connolly: "An elephant has shit at City Hall. Treat it as a roundabout."
- The DMA recommends junk mail
- Anti-virus companies warn about the threat of viruses
- FSF recommends Free Software
- Slashdot user promotes Linux
I don't think this has been addressed on it yet, but a good reference for these sorts of claims is Bad Astronomy.
I think the key is "systematic".
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I have three letters for you: J. R. R.
It's the default filler text used when someone needs a bit of text, for example for demonstrating a typeface or page layout. See this Straight Dope article for more info.
Not to mention "truely" in the first sentence. Has this actually been confirmed?
This has been widely known outside the US for ages, which is why nobody uses them there. See http://www.skepdic.com/polygrap.html for a thorough discussion.