Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, and Adi Shamir have released a paper showing that they’ve broken KASUMI, the cipher used in encrypting 3G GSM communications. KASUMI is also known as A5/3, which is confusing because it’s only been a week since breaks on A5/1, a completely different cipher, were publicized. So if you’re wondering if this [...]
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Here is my list of the most important talks of the 26th Chaos Communication Congress [26C3] held in Berlin, Germany that was held last week. Since my German language skills have eroded into near-worthlessness, I’m only going to mention presentations available in the English language. Many videos are not yet up, but of those that are, these [...] My EEE PC 901 was great. The only problem was that I couldn’t stand the keyboard and so our romance ended abruptly. This made me sad, so it was banished to the back of my workspace. It stayed there until I realized that I was never going to love it the way it deserved to be [...] It’s nice that geeks are cool now. Now there are a lot of people who say they’re hardcore. Here’s some of them: These stereotypes are not who I’m going to be talking about, though I do have some guilty pleasures of a few of those portrayed above. I’m going to talk about me and my kind. [...] It seems like it is getting fairly hard to find a place to host videos now that Google video has stopped accepting new content, YouTube is what it is, and the other players are varied. Wikipedia has a chart of all the major players in hosting internet videos, but let me break down some of the [...] |
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