Auxis - Slashdot User

Submission + - How often do you exercise?

Submitted by unfasten on Saturday June 06, 2009 @03:54AM

unfasten writes: How often do you exercise?

Once a day
A few times a week
A few times a month
A few times a year
All the time! My right forearm is a rock...
Does answering the door for the pizza guy count?

Submission + - RSA Broken? (liveammo.com)

Submitted by

liveammo

on Saturday June 06, 2009 @12:22AM

liveammo writes: "This is a factoring attack against RSA with an up to 80% reduction in the search candidates required for a conventional brute force key attack, and affects any cryptosystem that uses modular arithmetic including the RSA encryption algorithm, potentially symmetric ciphers such as DES which use modular multiplication and addition rounds for diffusion, and even reduction of entropy attacks against PRNG functions such as those that are used to seed TCP/IP Initial Sequence Numbers (ISNs) and DNS servers for example. Sample Erlang proof of concept factoring code is included at the end of this post, and implements the attack against the prime number multiplication process in RSA so that security enthusiasts and armchair cryptographers alike can experiment with and validate these findings. For lack of a more descriptive term and in keeping with the field of cryptanalysis' somewhat arcane nomenclature, I am referring to this attack method as a "Reduction Sieve"."

Comment Game Companies Own It But... (Score 1) 167

by Auxis on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @12:37AM (#25364981) Attached to: Rights To Virtual Property In Games?

I think most MMO companies have a EULA stating that the items in the game are owned by the company, however, most people who "sell" those items don't really sell them at all. The sellers disclaimer mostly states that the customer is simply paying for a service. The customer is paying them for the time it took to obtain that item, and they're simply transferring the item to the customer's account.

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