User: Spudster

Data Replication

On: Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia HDD

I'm somewhat amazed that a vehicle as well connected as the shuttle doesn't mirror its data to the ground controllers. In the event of a failure, an alternate copy of the data would exist and millions of dollars worth of experimental data wouldn't be at risk. On-track does however rock (Until you get the bill)!

MD5 & SHA-1 might not be cracked.....

On: Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme

But they are certainly weak against attacks using rainbowtables. Both algorithms should be tossed into the bit bucket for something a little more secure. New services including Hashbreaker, Schmoo, freerainbowtables etc show how easy it is to brute force using rainbowtables. RE: http://www.hashbreaker.com/ and distributed rainbowtable generation http://hashbreaker.com:8700/ http://wired.s6n.com/files/jathias/ http://www.freerainbowtables.com/index-rainbowtabl es-distributed.html/ http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/02/password-crackin g-with-rainbowcrack-and-rainbow-tables/ -Spudster

What about the flooding problem?

On: Google's Secretive Data Center

Isn't anyone worrying about a flood? I can't imagine the expense of loosing all that equipment to water.

Why not use it as a backup?

On: Fly-by-Wireless Plane Takes to the Sky

Why not have the wireless option as a failsafe for the wired system? It makes sense to use this just in case the conventional wired system failes. Just my $.02

Re:Unbreakable ...Encryption MD5?

On: Code for Unbreakable Quantum Encryption

Yes, MD5 is a weak encryption. Check out http://www.hashbreaker.com/, you can download MD5 rainbowtables free to crack MD5 hashes.

Online Backups

On: Home Network Data Storage Device

Perhaps you should look into an Online backup solution, the costs are very resonable for such critical data. I would recommend http://www.backup-live.com/