May 2009
17 posts
Plaintext Recovery Attacks Against SSH (pdf) →
This paper presents a variety of plaintext-recovering attacks against SSH. We implemented a proof of concept of our attacks against OpenSSH, where we can verifiably recover 14 bits of plaintext from an arbitrary block of ciphertext with probability 2^14 and 32 bits of plaintext from an arbitrary block of ciphertext with probability 2^18. These attacks assume the default configuration of a 128-bit...
“In the context of software, the word ‘Enterprise’ has now officially...”
– Miko Matsumura
jeffbarr: Wrote PHP code on the bus until Wifi dropped and I had a bus error (core dumped too).
nitin: @jeffbarr so it was a bus with a toilet ?
Your Botnet is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet... →
In this paper, we report on our efforts to take control of the Torpig botnet for ten days. Over this period, we observed more than 180 thousand infections and recorded more than 70 GB of data that the bots collected. While botnets have been “hijacked” before, the Torpig botnet exhibits certain properties that make the analysis of the data particularly interesting.
Displaying quotes in Latex listing
If you need to use quotes (“) in Latex listing (lstlisting), use these setting:
% you need to include all these packages \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{listings} \lstset{ upquote=true, }
“A man is a god in ruins”
– Emerson
Dark matter intrigue deepens →
New data from two experiments — one in space, one on a balloon floating above Antarctica — hint at a tantalizing detection of dark matter, the mysterious stuff comprising 85% of the universe’s matter. The evidence is a reported excess of high-energy electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons, which could be created as dark matter particles annihilate or decay.
“The popularity of a social networking site will be in inverse proportion to the...”
– Ben Laurie - ‘Why Privacy Will Always Lose’