Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Carter and Gaviria endorse CNE results. Carter and Gaviria speaking. Carter says that a quick check his Center performed at the totalization center and at selected voting locations, coincides with the CNE announcement. Gaviria was more careful at the beginning, but later supported the quick count mentioned by Carter. Gaviria said that the opposition should present the cases of fraud it has found and that the OAS with the evidence presented can not say there was fraud, but may later find something else. Carter said that Sumate had an exit poll with No ahead 55% to 45%, but then Gaviria seemed to contradict him saying that it was 52% for the Si and 48% for the NO. Carter more emphatic than Gaviria but both backing the results unless evidence of fraud is presented. My friends, unles something earth shaking can be proven, we have now to accept the results. [Satan's Poop Inc. Paila Master: Venezuela] It's a sad day for Venezuela. I can't say this outcome is completely surprising--as a Californian, I'm used to votes going to a communist by even larger margins than that. Unfortunately now Venezuelans are out of luck--the best option remaining seems to be moving to some less unfree country. 11:57:06 AM    comment () More Hash Functions Broken. Following up on this rumor from earlier today. There is still no confirmation out there of the break in SHA-1, but this preprint, which went up today, reports collisions in MD4, MD5, HAVAL-128 and RIPEMD, all achieved with very little CPU time. That pretty much covers all the cryptographic hash functions in use. It feels as though once someone found the right thread to pull on, the whole sweater started to unravel. [Diminished Capacity] If these breaks turn out to be real, it would render all existing digital signatures useless. That's a pretty big deal, as digital signatures are used in a things like downloadable software updates and web pages. 10:17:51 AM    comment ()

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