[110327] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Etaoin Shrdlu)
Fri Jan 2 19:42:03 2009
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:43:53 -0800
From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@deaddrop.org>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <77e4079b0901021537w72b5eb2dx379b70b1b2b54211@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Neil wrote:
>>Do people here really so quickly forget things? There was a talk on
>>Carnivore given in 2000 at NANOG 20, IIRC, and I believe that one of the
>>instigating causes of that talk was problems that Earthlink had experienced
>>when the FBI had deployed Carnivore there.
> Naturally. The NSA isn't filled with theorists who want to get the
> job done the "right" way. They have a mission to fulfill, and they'll
> use whatever tool works to get it done.
Just a slight point of order, here. Carnivore (and its successor,
DCS1000) were used by, and developed by, the FBI. The NSA use other
stuff. Let's get back to reality, anyway.
--
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian W. Kernighan
