This should be what happens here -- preserve the status quo, get rid of the two of 'em as soon as possible, and start fresh in four years.
Or you could do what Lybian leader Col. Moammar Gadhaffi suggests: "For U.S. to avoid a civil war, power should be split between the presidential candidates," he said. "In case Bush wins, Al Gore could be his deputy and vice-versa."
It's not as if we don't have the funds for such an endeavor. A friend of mind crunched the numbers and figured that the cost of one aircraft carrier could put a computer on ever classroom desk of every school of every town, city, and state in this country (and we're in the processes of building a new one right now, right?).
Just because you would be able to put a computer in every classroom of every school doesn't mean that this is where the resources should be spent. It's a controversial thing to say on slashdot, but computers aren't the solution to every problem. The failing education system is probably one of those problems.
"Government cannot exist without the tacit consent of the populace. This consent is maintained by keeping people in ignorance of their real power. Voting is not an expression of power, but an admission of powerlessness, since it cannot do otherwise than reaffirm the government's supposed legitimacy."
Essentially, copying a smartcard like this is astronomically difficult, and at the very least, much more difficult than xeroxing a paper card or making a duplicate
of a plastic card with a hologram.
The truth of this statement depends to a great deal on the design of the algorithms, protocols, and hardware. For instance the A5 algorithm used by most GSM phone smartcards is broken and these cards can be duplicated with minimal effort
The problem is Government thinks that your money is their money. And since we are the government, your money is my money, and that my friend is called Socialism.
No, it's just government meddling. Socialism is something quite different... from the American Heritage Dictionary:
Socialism - a social system in which the producers possess both political power and the means of producing and distributing goods.
What ever happened to releasing software when it was ready. Is Debian the only distribution that does this?
The alternative approach is to keep your software in a constant state of near readiness, so you can easily meet any release dates you care to set. OpenBSD does this. Although I wouldn't do it for a server, I consistently run my workstation at the current state of the CVS tree, and encounter hardly any problems. The OpenBSD team can comfortably commit to releases every 6 months, and meet those dates.
Of course, the OpenBSD team isn't hellbent on prying money out of the hands of consumers.
Well, if you used OpenBSD, you wouldn't have to worry about things like that. For example, it has an encrypted swap space, using Blowfish 128bit encryption.
Good point, but since May 27, 2000, OpenBSD uses Rijndael ; to encrypt the swap file, for faster key setup. (yet an other example of "That was fixed 5 months ago"),
According to the paper, for the number of rounds specified, there is no known attack that is stronger than exhaustive key search. Hence, adding rounds will add nothing to security. You have to increase the key length to achieve this.
Although NIST is reasonably certain that Rijndael is secure with the specified number of rounds, this is no guarantee that it is this strong against future attacks. No proofs of it's security were made, only assertions. It is possible that increasing the number of rounds would provide protection against future attacks.
IIRC, OpenBSD swap space is only overwritten on demand.
I think that you are confusing the swap file encryption in OpenBSD with the Windows NT feature which writes 0's on the disk at shutdown. In OpenBSD, a random key is generated at system startup, and this is used to encrypt all data written to the swap file. When the system is shut down or rebooted, this key is lost and the swap file is unreadable.
"Why use HTML when javascript, cascading style sheets, java, cookies, imagemaps, and shockwave will do?"
The problem isn't the new technologies, it's people who use those technologies without following the standards. If you read and follow the standards put out by the W3C, you'll find that the standards are very much geared towards the creation of webpages that are accessible to all clients, whether they be text only or graphical.
From the conclusion of the "Liquid Glass" Section:
In any case, claims that glass in old windows have deformed due to glass flow have never been substantiated. Examples of Roman glassware and calculations based on measurements of glass visco-properties indicate that they cannot be true. The observed features are more easily explained as a result of the imperfect methods used to make glass window panes before the float glass process was invented.
"JUNE6_INVASION: NORMANDY" probably has different enough statistics from the rest of the DNA around it that it might stand out.
Although this is correct, upon reading the article, one notes the following:
She encrypted the message, "JUNE6_INVASION: NORMANDY," inserted it in the gene sequence of a DNA-strand, and flanked it by two secret "primer" DNA sequences.
Presumably "encryption" means that the pattern would be scrambled enough to preclude any statistical analysis. A more interesting question is "What was in the other strings?" If it was natural dna from an organism, it could be filtered out by matching it with dna from that organism, leaving the correct string. (Which would still have to be decrypted, of course)
In most cases, steganography on it's own is security through obscurity: it only works if your adversary doesn't know you're using it. You need a method of makeing the data stored look the same as the "chaff"
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You can find the full text of the leaked report on Cryptome
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Or you could do what Lybian leader Col. Moammar Gadhaffi suggests: "For U.S. to avoid a civil war, power should be split between the presidential candidates," he said. "In case Bush wins, Al Gore could be his deputy and vice-versa."
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Just because you would be able to put a computer in every classroom of every school doesn't mean that this is where the resources should be spent. It's a controversial thing to say on slashdot, but computers aren't the solution to every problem. The failing education system is probably one of those problems.
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The truth of this statement depends to a great deal on the design of the algorithms, protocols, and hardware. For instance the A5 algorithm used by most GSM phone smartcards is broken and these cards can be duplicated with minimal effort
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No, it's just government meddling. Socialism is something quite different... from the American Heritage Dictionary:
Socialism - a social system in which the producers possess both political power and the means of producing and distributing goods.
Currently, the producers possess neither.
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The alternative approach is to keep your software in a constant state of near readiness, so you can easily meet any release dates you care to set. OpenBSD does this. Although I wouldn't do it for a server, I consistently run my workstation at the current state of the CVS tree, and encounter hardly any problems. The OpenBSD team can comfortably commit to releases every 6 months, and meet those dates.
Of course, the OpenBSD team isn't hellbent on prying money out of the hands of consumers.
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Good point, but since May 27, 2000, OpenBSD uses Rijndael ; to encrypt the swap file, for faster key setup. (yet an other example of "That was fixed 5 months ago"),
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Although NIST is reasonably certain that Rijndael is secure with the specified number of rounds, this is no guarantee that it is this strong against future attacks. No proofs of it's security were made, only assertions. It is possible that increasing the number of rounds would provide protection against future attacks.
These privacy issues aren't anything new - the same issues have to be dealt with in nearly any internet cafe or university computer lab.
IDEA is not a Public Key Algorithm, it is a symetric key algorithm./p
IIRC, OpenBSD swap space is only overwritten on demand.
I think that you are confusing the swap file encryption in OpenBSD with the Windows NT feature which writes 0's on the disk at shutdown. In OpenBSD, a random key is generated at system startup, and this is used to encrypt all data written to the swap file. When the system is shut down or rebooted, this key is lost and the swap file is unreadable.
The problem isn't the new technologies, it's people who use those technologies without following the standards. If you read and follow the standards put out by the W3C, you'll find that the standards are very much geared towards the creation of webpages that are accessible to all clients, whether they be text only or graphical.
Everyone should read the Pysics FAQ
From the conclusion of the "Liquid Glass" Section:
"JUNE6_INVASION: NORMANDY" probably has different enough statistics from the rest of the DNA around it that it might stand out.
Although this is correct, upon reading the article, one notes the following:
Presumably "encryption" means that the pattern would be scrambled enough to preclude any statistical analysis. A more interesting question is "What was in the other strings?" If it was natural dna from an organism, it could be filtered out by matching it with dna from that organism, leaving the correct string. (Which would still have to be decrypted, of course)
In most cases, steganography on it's own is security through obscurity: it only works if your adversary doesn't know you're using it. You need a method of makeing the data stored look the same as the "chaff"
Patrick Michaud, the Researcher responsible for the grape experiment, has also performed ground-breaking Pop-Tart research. Check it out at:
Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches