Re: In all the talk of super computers there is not...

2007-09-07 Thread mtd
Leichter, Jerry wrote: | A couple of questions. How did you come up with the ~2.5 bits per | word? Would a longer word have more bits? He misapplied an incorrect estimate! :-) The usual estimate - going back to Shannon's original papers on information theory, actually - is that

Re: Seagate announces hardware FDE for laptop and desktop machines

2007-09-07 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 9/6/07, Jacob Appelbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seagate recently announced a 1TB drive for desktop systems and a 250GB laptop drive. What's of interest is that it appears to use a system called DriveTrust for Full Disk Encryption. It's apparently AES-128. Yes, but will it work on my

Re: Seagate announces hardware FDE for laptop and desktop machines

2007-09-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Jacob Appelbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seagate recently announced a 1TB drive for desktop systems and a 250GB laptop drive. What's of interest is that it appears to use a system called DriveTrust for Full Disk Encryption. It's apparently AES-128. The detail lacking press release is here:

Re: World's most powerful supercomputer goes online

2007-09-07 Thread Peter Gutmann
Another potential use for the Storm worm... I can't imagine this would be why it's being assembled since there's no money in it, but consider the prospect of x million machines cycling from idle to full load once a minute. If the power swing in doing this is (for example) 100 watts per PC then