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Netgear WNR3500L Open Source Router Announced 300

Posted by kdawson on Monday October 05, 2009 @07:41PM from the still-making-lemonade dept.

MyOpenRouter writes "Netgear has announced the WNR3500L, a brand new, open source, wireless-N gigabit router customizable with third party firmwares. MyOpenRouter is the dedicated source for Netgear open source routers, with the full scoop including a review with screenshots, how-to's, tutorials, firmware downloads, etc. Here's a review and the downloads page." The router can run popular open source firmware including DD-WRT, OpenWRT. and Tomato. It will list for $140.

Comment The power to come (Score 1) 263

by BecuzISaySo on Friday June 26, 2009 @08:15PM (#28490037) Attached to: Copyfraud Is Stealing the Public Domain

One day, one of the emerging countries (China, India, Brazil) is going to realize how many hurdles are created in innovation and progress due to the greedy nature of the IP laws that US is pushing. That country is going to rationalize their IP laws and become the world leader in knowledge based economy. Our country will huff and puff due to the idiots running the country and the influence that IP whores have in our capital but won't be able to do much. May be someone can make a sci-fi novel out of it. I claim copyright on the idea...wait, never mind :)

Flaw Made Public In OpenSSH Encryption 231

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 21, 2009 @02:41PM from the days-to-whom dept.

alimo20 writes "Researchers at the Royal Holloway, University of London have discovered a flaw in Version 4.7 of OpenSSH on Debian/GNU Linux. According to ISG lead professor Kenny Patterson, an attacker has a 2^{-18} (that is, one in 262,144) chance of success. Patterson tells that this is more significant than past discoveries because 'This is a design flaw in OpenSSH. The other vulnerabilities have been more about coding errors.' The vulnerability is possible by a man-in-the-middle intercepting blocks of encrypted material as it passes. The attacker then re-transmits the data back to the server and counts the number of bytes before the server to throws error messages and disconnects the attacker. Using this information, the attacker can work backwards to figure out the first 4 bytes of data before encryption. 'The attack relies on flaws in the RFC (Request for Comments) internet standards that define SSH, said Patterson. ... Patterson said that he did not believe this flaw had been exploited in the wild, and that to deduce a message of appreciable length could take days.'"

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