December 2008
11 posts
SSL broken! →
Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisions
Using computing power from a cluster of 200 PS3 game consoles and about $700 in test digital certificates, a group of hackers in the U.S. and Europe have found a way to target a known weakness in the MD5 algorithm to create a rogue Certification Authority (CA), a breakthrough that allows the forging of certificates that are fully trusted by...
This Machine Might* Save the World
* that’s a big, fat “might”
Two desktop-printer engineers quit their jobs to search for the ultimate source of endless energy: nuclear fusion. Could this highly improbable enterprise actually succeed?
US Military Uses Nintendo To Defuse Bombs →
It's here...
markherrmann:
Agreement For Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq