The game is afoot - Contractor UK Bulletin Board

Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

You are not logged in. If you are already registered, fill in the form below to log in, or follow the "Sign Up" link to register a new account.
You may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

doodab replied

6 September 2013, 10:14
Having read it, it sounds more like they've coerced a database of private keys out of all and sundry.

I always thought there was a nefarious reason that top down CA based PKI trust relationships were pushed so hard over the peer to peer model.
Leave a comment:
OwlHoot replied

6 September 2013, 10:12
Perhaps Bullrun has been a Manhatten-style mega project to develop practical quantum computers.

Amazing if true and they've succeeded, because several prominent physicists, including Nobel prize winner Gerard 't Hooft, are on record as having claimed these can never be made practical. Beyond a certain threshold they would suffer an unaccountable but inevitable "sudden death" or the quantum equivalent of a core dump.
Leave a comment:
doodab started a topic The game is afoot

6 September 2013, 08:55
The game is afoot

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us...n.html?hp&_r=0

Where do we go with this then? Are some specific ciphers broken by design? Rather gives the lie to the "if it's open source everyone can check it and therefore you know it's secure" line doesn't it.
Tags: None

Working...

X