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1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

From Engadget: Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, [three people] at the University of Michigan claim they [...]

BOINC stats on this post only

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Apparently boincstats.com’s button is too wide for the page. However, I will link to the button in this comment. Regardless of the date of this post, the graphic will always be updated with the latest information. Here are the stats: I am no longer using Einstein or Rosetta. SHA-1 is currently “put on hold”

Back to the Future

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Lately I’ve been getting into all the stuff I used to do before college and all that came along. I put on Coast to Coast AM the other day, now with George Noory after Art Bell retired. I also got BOINC up. I run SETI@Home, Enigma@Home, yoyo@home’s OGR wrapper, and SHA-1 collision search (currently dormant). [...]