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Submission + - OpenSSH no longer has to depend on OpenSSL (gmane.org)

Submitted by ConstantineM
ConstantineM writes: What has been planned for a long time now, prior to the infamous heartbleed fiasco of OpenSSL (which does not affect SSH at all), is now officially a reality — with the help of some recently adopted crypto from DJ Bernstein, OpenSSH now finally has a compile-time option to no longer depend on OpenSSL — `make OPENSSL=no` has now been introduced for a reduced configuration OpenSSH to be built without OpenSSL, which would leave you with no legacy SSH-1 baggage at all, and on the SSH-2 front with only AES-CTR and chacha20+poly1305 ciphers, ECDH/curve25519 key exchange and Ed25519 public keys.

Submission + - US Should Use Trampolines to Get Astronauts to the ISS Suggests Russian Official

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: The Washington Post reports that Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has lashed out again, this time at newly announced US ban on high-tech exports to Russia suggesting that "after analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I propose the US delivers its astronauts to the ISS with a trampoline." Rogozin does actually have a point, although his threats carry much less weight than he may hope. Russia is due to get a $457.9 million payment for its services soon and few believe that Russia would actually give it up. Plus, as Jeffrey Kluger noted at Time Magazine, Russia may not want to push the United States into the hands of SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, two private American companies that hope to be able to send passengers to the station soon. SpaceX and Orbital Sciences have already made successful unmanned resupply runs to the ISS and both are also working on upgrading their cargo vehicles to carry people. SpaceX is currently in the lead and expects to launch US astronauts, employed by SpaceX itself, into orbit by 2016. NASA is building its own heavy-lift rocket for carrying astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, but it won’t be ready for anything but test flights until after 2020. "That schedule, of course, could be accelerated considerably if Washington gave NASA the green light and the cash," says Kluger. "America’s manned space program went from a standing start in 1961 to the surface of the moon in 1969—eight years from Al Shepard to Tranquility Base. The Soviet Union got us moving then. Perhaps Russia will do the same now."

Comment Re:"Safety" demonstration (Score 1) 221

by ctydeht (#45293017) Attached to: FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights

Once you've heard it the first 50 times or so, there's not exactly anything new in there.

And it's not really meant to be 'new' to those that fly often. The purpose of the "safety demonstration" is twofold: to instruct those that don't have your level of experience, and to serve as a reminder to those that do. For this same reason, all U.S. paratroopers (those that are new as well as those that have hundreds of jumps) go through a scripted (that will read verbatim) pre-jump briefing covering the hazards and expected reactions to those hazards, if encountered. That brief is the exact same prior to every jump, and once the paratrooper has been around any length of time they can parrot pretty much the entire script. It's to get you in a mindset and walk you through the steps you should follow so that you don't have to think about it - you ideally just react. Like the airlines, they would prefer that in the case of an emergency you don't have to sit there and think for too long about what you're supposed to do.

And from your second paragraph, obviously it has accomplished its intent.

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