On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:46:41PM -0800, Allen wrote:
An idle question. English has a relatively low entropy as a
language. Don't recall the exact figure, but if you look at words
that start with q it is very low indeed.
I seem to recall Shannon did some experiments which showed that with a
Thorsten Kleinjung reports recent success on computing discrete
logarithms modulo 530-bit (160 decimal digits) prime:
http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0702L=nmbrthryT=0P=194
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Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:46:41 -0800
Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi gang,
An idle question. English has a relatively low entropy as a
language.
Don't recall the exact figure, but if you look at words that start
with q it is very low indeed.
| somewhat related
| Study Finds Bank of America SiteKey is Flawed
| http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/02/05/1323243.shtml
Recall how SiteKey works: When you register, you pick an image (from a
large collection) and a phrase. Whenever you connect, the bank will
play back the image and phrase. You
Leichter, Jerry wrote:
Recall how SiteKey works: When you register, you pick an image (from a
large collection) and a phrase. Whenever you connect, the bank will
play back the image and phrase. You aren't supposed to enter your
password until you see your own image and phrase.
i.e. it is a
Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An idle question. English has a relatively low entropy as a
language. Don't recall the exact figure, but if you look at words
that start with q it is very low indeed.
What about other languages? Does anyone know the relative entropy
of other alphabetic languages?
Thanks for all the comments in and off list. A revised write-up is
available at http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976901451
More examples where convenience trumps ease-of-use, and risk, will be added
from time to time. Please check back. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
so the assertion in the previous post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#30 man in the middle, SSL
was that sitekey as being introduced because of shortcomings in SSL
countermeasures to
man-in-the-middle attacks however sitekey only deals with simple
impersonation
and is easily
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:08:07PM -0600, Travis H. wrote:
IIRC, it turned out that Egyptian heiroglyphs were actually syllabic,
like Mesopotamian, so no fun there. Mayan, on the other hand, remains
an enigma. I read not long ago that they also had a way of recording
stories on bundles of
Travis H. wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:46:41PM -0800, Allen wrote:
[...]
What about other languages? Does anyone know the relative entropy of
other alphabetic languages? What about the entropy of ideographic
languages? Pictographic? Hieroglyphic?
IIRC, it turned out that Egyptian
Earlier today, I publicly released the architecture-level specification
for Bitfrost, the security platform on the One Laptop per Child machines:
http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=security;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=bitfrost.txt
This is a complete but non-technical spec, with its technical complement
And here is the wired coverage of the BitFrost platform:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72669-0.html?tw=wn_culture_1
From the article:
But it should come as no surprise -- given how thoroughly the project
has rewritten the conventions of what a laptop should be -- that the
OLPC's
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:42:49AM -0800, Sandy Harris wrote:
He starts from information theory and an assumption that
there needs to be some constant upper bound on the
receiver's per-symbol processing time. From there, with
nothing else, he gets to a proof that the optimal frequency
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:04:40 -0800
Saqib Ali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And here is the wired coverage of the BitFrost platform:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72669-0.html?tw=wn_culture_1
From the article:
But it should come as no surprise -- given how thoroughly the project
has
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:53:16PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Speakers of such Native American languages as Navajo, Choctaw
and Cheyenne served as radio operators, know as Code Talkers,
to keep communications secret during both World Wars. Welsh
speakers played a
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