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Re: distributed.net and seti@home
From: ewout.meij () CIBASC COM (Meij Ewout MSM AD CH)
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:03:28 +0100
I did some porting work on seti@home back when I admin'd more than just Linux boxes, so I had the source, and really you were just doing FFTs precisely like the web page describes. Of course I can't confirm that the data was *really* aracebo data and that it wasn't some NSA-inspired FFT-based factoring scheme to crack the Russian's RSA missile codes. And of course I always secretly suspected that the linux porter had encoded a package into the binary distrubution which patched your kernel to rootkit your box and disable correct strace()ing of the seti@home binary, but I never had time to disassemble it on an uncompromised box and prove it.
Your claims regarding the Linux binaries are completely false. I did only port the generic Unix sources of seti@home. I did NOT add any of the security compromises you mention to the Linux binaries. You should not make such claims without providing any evidence.
Hi, I feel like taking a risk today and start speaking for someone else, but I'd hate to see some spend the weekend with a bad temper: You just missed the ;) here, there wasn't any, so it must have been removed by his comprimized binary 'distrubution' Personaly, I thought it quite funny put. Cheers, Ewout
Current thread:
- Re: Possible DHCP DOS attack, (continued)
- Re: Possible DHCP DOS attack Erik Fichtner (Feb 03)
- Re: Possible DHCP DOS attack Matthew S. Hallacy (Feb 03)
- DHCP and Security Nitzenberger, Rob, MSgt, AF/XORR (Feb 03)
- Re: DHCP and Security Erik Fichtner (Feb 03)
- Re: DHCP and Security Seth R Arnold (Feb 04)
- Re: DHCP and Security Jeff Bachtel (Feb 05)
- Re: Possible DHCP DOS attack Michal Zalewski (Feb 03)
- Re: Possible DHCP DOS attack Blue Boar (Feb 03)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Oliver Friedrichs (Feb 02)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Andrew Brown (Feb 02)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Meij Ewout MSM AD CH (Feb 04)