2879867
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ta bu shi da yu writes:
According to Microsoft Security Advisory 961509, "research was published at a security conference proving a successful attack against X.509 digital certificates signed using the MD5 hashing algorithm. This attack method could allow an attacker to generate additional digital certificates with different content that have the same digital signature as an original certificate. The MD5 algorithm had previously shown a vulnerability, but a practical attack had not yet been demonstrated."
Further information on MD5 collisions can be found on the web site of Peter Selinger, who is a Associate Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University, Canada.
634396
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ta bu shi da yu writes:
Alp Toker has reported on his blog that WebKit/GTK+ now passes ACID3 tests. Probably justifiably, he proudly reports that "I believe we're the first project to achieve this on Linux".
470200
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ta bu shi da yu writes:
Mozilla has hired several developers from Humanized. According to Ars Technica, Humanized is a "small software company that is known for its considerable usability expertise and innovative user interface design. The Humanized developers will be working at Mozilla Labs on Firefox and innovative new projects."
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ta bu shi da yu writes:
It appears that, incredibly, Vista often runs out of memory while copying files. ZDNet is reporting that not only does it run out of memory after copying 16,400+ files, but "often there is little indication that file copy operations haven't completed correctly". After several billion dollars spent developing Vista, surely Microsoft could get their OS to copy files properly?
