Category: Windows & MS

Computer niggles

… of my efforts to run a dual boot Gentoo/WinXP system. The other day I ran across 10 days as a Linux user, the account of a Windows user’s self-imposed Linux odyssey. And it makes fairly interesting reading. As you know I’ve been a Linux user for hmm, over 10 years now (Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake,… Continue reading Computer niggles

DLL Hell

Gaim & Eclipse don’t play nicely together! At least not where Cygwin is concerned. The problem is the tcl dll you see. Eclipse (actually CDT) requires Cygwin in the path to be able to run gdb. gdb requires that I install Cygwin’s tcl. As soon as that happens, Cygwin’s tcl masks Gaim’s tcl and Gaim… Continue reading DLL Hell

MD5: more meaningful collisions

I previously wrote about how XBox videogame publishers can break free from Microsoft. It wasn’t so theoretical. This week, researchers showed how to get MD5 collisions with meaningful documents. I wonder what method Microsoft will use to sign Xenon XBEs?

SHA-1 Followup

More re the SHA-1 result: Around $30M (give or take a few million) should build you a machine to find a collision in a few days. What previously took (say) the NSA 40 years to figure out now takes about a week. A second preimage attack is theoretically 2106, according to a Schneier paper. If… Continue reading SHA-1 Followup