Tuesday, February 26, 2002|
Berstein Breaks RSA Keys This paper technically broke last august. "bear" on the cryptography list thinks this is the biggest crypto thing to happen in 10 years. Probably. Use only greater then 2K bit RSA keys now. Luckily I DON'T use RSA keys, so I should be safe, for another 2 years or so. |
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Redirected DDOS Attacks This guy got majorly pounded. A form of DDOS attack that's distributed, and, with enough distribution, only a little bit of traffic from each zombie would be enough to deny service to your machine. This is good stuff. Kinda. Kinda scary too. |
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The Zen TV Experiment Holy Shit. Sometimes you happen across things on the internet that reveals good ideas. This is one of them Now if I could only spell |
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Centuries-old clock puzzle solved. US researchers think they have solved a clock puzzle dating back to
the days of 17th century Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens. [BBC News: sci/tech] Always neat to see how the different news sources vary on how fast they pick up a story. Slashdot picked this up.. hmm.. a few days ago. But Huygens is cool. He basically did everything |
