At 03:42 AM 3/11/2005, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:48:12PM -08
At last, the secret of how to make MD5 collisions is out!
See http://cryptography.hyperlink.cz/MD5_collisions.html. This includes
the Wang report, probably the one which will be presented at Eurocrypt:
http://www.infosec.sdu.edu.cn/paper/md5-attack.pdf.
As a bonus, it includes an independent rec
At 12:15 AM 3/10/2005, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I worked with Bram and Zooko at Mojo Nation (where both BT and Mnet got
> their respective genesis) and was frankly surprised when the MPAA was so
> easily able to target and put out of commission BT's trackers. The
Why? BT is designe
> If you want to be invisible to lawyers, you have to use something else.
Whoever wants to design something 'else' should first see Monty Python's "How
not to be seen" sketch (or was it "Importance of not being seen" ?)
It applies pretty well to all current techniques for moving unpaid copyrighte
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:06:45PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
> I worked with Bram and Zooko at Mojo Nation (where both BT and Mnet got
> their respective genesis) and was frankly surprised when the MPAA was so
> easily able to target and put out of commission BT's trackers. The
Why? BT is de
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:48:12PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
> >Why? BT is designed with zero privacy in mind.
>
> And this was a profound error, IMHO. One of the epiphanies from my work at
It was a deliberate decision on Bram Cohen's part. BT is a very useful medium
to deliver software updat
At 12:14 PM 3/9/2005, Eric Cordian wrote:
If you had a thousand hours of genius programmer time, would you spend it
embracing and extending Bittorrent, or shoveling through the
indecipherable bowels of legacy Mnet and Freenet code?
I worked with Bram and Zooko at Mojo Nation (where both BT and Mnet
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On 9 Mar 2005 at 12:14, Eric Cordian wrote:
> Now, I think we can all agree that it would be lovely to have
> a distributed filesystem, with a global namespace, that
> anyone can put stuff in, and take stuff out of, which
> guarantees anonymity for both producers and consumers of
> content,
