Mersenne: Re: number of processors participating

2001-11-08 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:58:37PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The point is that it is >almost impossible to modify a binary image without changing the >MD5 checksum - in fact, to the best of my knowledge, this has not >been demonstrated, even in a laboratory environment - a very great >d

Re: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
> Finally, reasonable configuration of a firewall (even a personal > firewall product installed on the workstation itself) will prevent > exploitation of a Back Orifice type trojan, even if one does manage > to sneak in unnoticed - these work by creating a listener which > allows those "in the kno

Re: Mersenne: number of processors participating

2001-11-08 Thread bjb
On 6 Nov 2001, at 16:09, Gerry Snyder wrote: > In a recent ethics briefing I was told that running seti@home on work > PC's was a no-no because there had been three break-ins to computers > using that program as a back door. > > No idea whether that is really the case, and no idea what > communi