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To help journalists who are losing their jobs, Six Apart offers them a pro account on TypePad. It's a $150 start.
Publ.Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:16:00 GMT
Source: Wired.com

America's Next Top Hash Function Begins
You might not have realized it, but the next great battle of cryptography began this month. It's not a political battle over export laws or key escrow or NSA eavesdropping, but an academic battle over who gets to be the creator of the next hash standard. Hash functions are the most commonly used cryptographic primitive, and the most poorly understood. You can think of them as fingerprint functions: They take an arbitrary long data stream and return a fixed length, and effectively unique, string. The security comes from the fact that while it's easy to generate the fingerprint from a file, it's infeasible to go the other way and generate a file given a fingerprint. Originally created to make digital signatures more efficient, hashes are now used to secure the very fundamentals of our information infrastructure: in password logins, secure web connections, encryption key management, virus and malware scanning, and almost every cryptographic protocol in current use. Without cryptographic hash functions, the internet would simply not work. At the same time, there isn't a good theory of hash functions. Unlike encryption algorithms, there are no secret keys involved; this makes it harder to mathematically define exactly what hash functions are. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, is holding a competition to replace the SHA family of hash functions. "SHA" stands for "Secure Hash Algorithm." It was developed by the NSA in 1993 to replace the commercial MD4 and MD5 algorithms, and has been updated several times since then. All the SHA algorithms are very similar, and have been increasingly under attack, so NIST wants to replace them. The competition is important because, unlike other technological standards, committee design — balancing the interests of diverse constituents — isn't conducive to good security. Security is best when it's designed by expert teams and then subjected to public review. And cryptography is best when it's chosen by competition. In 1997, NIST held a competition for a block cipher to replace DES. Fifteen candidates and three-and-a-half years later, Rijndael became the new Advanced Encryption Standard — AES. NIST is doing the same thing for what it's calling SHA-3 (not, for some unexplained reason, the Advanced Hash Standard or AHS). The deadline was October 31, and NIST received 64 submissions. This isn't surprising — I predicted 80 — as most of the 15 AES submitters were professors, whose students at the time have become professors themselves, with their own students. (If NIST does a stream cipher competition in another ten years, they should expect about 256 submissions.) These submissions came from academia, from industry, and from hobbyists. CIO magazine recently interviewed one of the submitters, who is 15. Twenty-eight submissions have been made public by the submitters, and six of those have been broken. NIST is going through all the submissions right now, making sure they are complete and proper. Their goal is to publish all accepted submissions by the end of November, in advance of the First Hash Function Candidate Conference, to be held in Belgium right after the Fast Software Encryption workshop in February. The group expects to quickly make a first cut of algorithms — hopefully to about a dozen — and give the community a year of cryptanalysis before making a second cut in 2010. After another year of cryptanalysis, NIST will choose a winner in 2011. Expect a final standard by 2012. My advice for software developers is to let the process run its course. While it's tempting to use the new cool algorithms in your designs, it's far too soon to trust any of them. This process is likely to result in all sorts of new research results in hash function security, and some real cryptanalytic surprises. Give the community a few years to figure out which ones are good and which aren't. I've previously called this sort of thing a cryptographic demolition derby: The last one left standing wins. But that's only partially true. Certainly all the groups will spend the next few years trying to cryptanalyze each other, but in the end there will be a bunch of unbroken algorithms. NIST will select one based on performance and features. NIST has stated that the goal of this process is not to choose the best standard but to choose a good standard. I think that's smart; in this process, the best is the enemy of the good. While there's no rush to choose a new standard — the SHA-2 algorithms will remain secure for the foreseeable future — we don't want to analyze the candidates forever. Personally, I was part of a group of eight cryptographers that submitted Skein to the competition. A decade ago, writing Twofish and participating in the AES process was the most fun I had ever had in cryptography. These next few years promise to be even more fun. --- Bruce Schneier is chief security technology officer of BT. His new book is Schneier on Security.
Publ.Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:00:00 GMT
Source: Wired.com

Introducing the Threat Level Rewards Program
The National Review Online is courting financial contributions by offering "new opportunities for access" to its editors and writers. Not to be outdone, here's the skinny on Threat Level's new sponsorship drive. Break out your wallet. We're going cheap.
Publ.Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:40:00 GMT
Source: Wired.com

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	Pokemon Pearl Turnback Cave and Giratina Pt. 1 ENG Posted by: SilentDrifterZ Video duration: 592 seconds Video on how to reach Giratina. (Note: I used the Shiny Code to get a Shiny Giratina. Also, anything I catch with a Cherish Ball, I plan to give away later in a tournament)

	Pokemon Pearl Iron Island Posted by: SilentDrifterZ Video duration: 580 seconds Footage of my character walking around Iron Island. This shows how you get a Riolu Egg, and a Shiny Stone

Pokemon Diamond GTS and Cloning ENG
Posted by: SilentDrifterZ

Video duration: 337 seconds

UPDATE: GLITCH HAS BEEN FIXED. DO NOT ATTEMPT THE CLONING PROCESS. (Try if you feel lucky and at your own risk, but I wouldn't do it as often anymore cause Nintendo has made it even harder to do it)
This is footage on how to use the GTS center.
Remember if you want to search for a pokemon, you have to have already SEEN it. (Like I haven't seen Mew or Celebi, so I can't search for them)

$Pokemon Pearl Catching Palkia and Don\$	Pokemon Pearl Catching Palkia and Don't Forgets ENG Posted by: SilentDrifterZ Video duration: 532 seconds Footage of Taisa catching Palkia (on the first try). It took me a while to come up with a nickname for it XD. And don't diss it, it works well with my Dialga (Xehanort). There's also a little extra at the end. Little don't forget me stuff.

	Pokemon Battle Revolution WiFi Battle 6/26 #2 ENG Posted by: SilentDrifterZ Video duration: 569 seconds My friend wasn't so lucky this time around ):

	Pokemon Battle Revolution Wifi Friend Battle 7/16 Posted by: SilentDrifterZ Video duration: 287 seconds Vs. Unreal40 ....I hate Wobbuffets so much lol. I don't care if it's blue, I hate them, especially those with LIPSTICK. Anyway, good battle. There was a bit of a lagging problem so I had to cut the thing down by A LOT (19mins down to 4)

	Pokemon Triple Dot - Parody - Episode 1 Posted by: SilentDrifterZ Video duration: 432 seconds ...ok let's try this again. With joint productions with KP Films, Ninja Puppy Productions presents: POKEMON TRIPLE DOT!

	Pokemon Pearl Victory Road Part 1 ENG Posted by: SilentDrifterZ Video duration: 597 seconds Part one of the Victory Road guide.

	Pokemon Pearl 8th Gym Puzzle/Leader/Waterfall ENG Posted by: SilentDrifterZ Video duration: 401 seconds This shows how to reach Volkner the 8th Gym Leader and also where to find Waterfall. Team: Torterra Lv.51 Mismagius Lv. 51 Vespiquen Lv.51 Luxray Lv.51 Manaphy Lv.50 Palkia Lv.49

	Super Mario Galaxy Orchestra Posted by: SilentDrifterZ Video duration: 132 seconds Behind the scenes with the Japanese Orchestra for Super Mario Galaxy. Totally psyched for this game and hopefully a Mario game I can actually finish. (Yea I'm terrible, never finished Super Mario 64, or Sunshine, nor the older games on the SNES sniff)

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