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SHA-3 Winner Announced 100

Posted by Soulskill from the cryptic-announcement dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just announced the winner of the SHA-3 competition: Keccak, created by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen and Gilles Van Assche of STMicroelectronics and Michaël Peeters of NXP Semiconductors. 'Keccak has the added advantage of not being vulnerable in the same ways SHA-2 might be,' says NIST computer security expert Tim Polk. 'An attack that could work on SHA-2 most likely would not work on Keccak because the two algorithms are designed so differently.' For Joan Daemen it must be a 'two in a row' feeling, since he also is one of the authors of AES."
Government

Submission + - Library of Congress to Release OS Software (digitalpreservation.gov)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Library of Congress has established an internal process to start creating more open source software which will make it easier for software developers and sponsors within the Library to produce software that can be freely redistributed to users worldwide. The Library has released some open source software to this point, concentrating on developing tools that support digital preservation processes, including the secure transfer of digital files. This includes the release of a full suite of digital content transfer tools that support the Bagit specification.
Intel

Novell and Intel Team Up For Moblin On Netbooks 29

Posted by Soulskill from the os-names-that-sound-like-they-might-eat-you dept.
ruphus13 writes "The Mobile and Netbook space already has several Open Source OS providers. Android has been making its way into netbooks, and Moblin, LiMo and Ubuntu are also alternatives for OSes on netbooks and mobile handhelds. Now, Novell has also joined the fray, but rather than porting openSuSE, they have teamed up with Intel to get OEMs to use Moblin for their mobile devices. From the article: 'With the other tools and benefits that Moblin offers OEMs and developers, it's really a rather smart approach that could potentially yield a better netbook experience (for developers and consumers), maximize development resources, and produce quality software in minimal time. I don't think Novell is eschewing SUSE, but in its current form, it's not as suited for netbooks as it is systems like the HP ProBooks. Paired with Moblin's netbook-centric bent and coming from a desktop/server market (rather than a true mobile device background), bringing a SUSE/Moblin system to netbooks has as much potential (if not more) for success as an Android adaptation does.'"

Comment Re:Er, no (Score 1) 286

by crunchy666 (#25019617) Attached to: Twilight of the GPU — an Interview With Tim Sweeney
You're thinking about this the wrong way. What you would be programming for is a general purpose language, with extensions (C/C++), then a compiler would generate the necessary binary code specific to the hardware. The compiler would handle the chip specific portions, leaving you to contend with creation of the graphics routines to render your scene (handling parallelism, vectorization, optimizations, etc.), in any way you see fit (rasterization, ray tracing, etc.) There is no reason why this would be any more difficult to support than the current DirectX/OpenGL APIs.

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