What the Hack Day 3
The evening track started with a talk from the Tor and Mixmaster maintainers about future problems they need to resolve to improve anonymous communication over the net. The current state of affairs with regard to Tor seems rather solid, but there're still many research papers to be written. I guess I'll setup a Tor proxy on our home ADSL line as well.
As always, Ruediger Weis gave an interesting talk about the current state of crypto. SHA1 seems in the region where big government agencies can build sufficiently fast machines to break it, but it looks like there will be an AES-like competetion for the next-gen hashing algo. Until now SHA256/512 seems like
a good compromise. Unfortunately there's no implementation in coreutils and Debian base, this should really be fixed.
The last talk I heard "Futureshock", was surprislingly interesting, as I didn't expect much. The lecturer outlined some technological progress over the last 100 years and projected some upcoming developments in AI/robotics, bio tech and nano tech that are already being worked on in labs. The world record for 200 metres running with one artificial leg is already down to 26 secs, which is not that much longer than I need for that distance, so it may only be a question of time when paralympics and olympics get merged.
As it was rather cold and wet I spent the rest of the night hacking in the tent until the network was interrupted due to the rain sometime late in the night.
As always, Ruediger Weis gave an interesting talk about the current state of crypto. SHA1 seems in the region where big government agencies can build sufficiently fast machines to break it, but it looks like there will be an AES-like competetion for the next-gen hashing algo. Until now SHA256/512 seems like
a good compromise. Unfortunately there's no implementation in coreutils and Debian base, this should really be fixed.
The last talk I heard "Futureshock", was surprislingly interesting, as I didn't expect much. The lecturer outlined some technological progress over the last 100 years and projected some upcoming developments in AI/robotics, bio tech and nano tech that are already being worked on in labs. The world record for 200 metres running with one artificial leg is already down to 26 secs, which is not that much longer than I need for that distance, so it may only be a question of time when paralympics and olympics get merged.
As it was rather cold and wet I spent the rest of the night hacking in the tent until the network was interrupted due to the rain sometime late in the night.
posted by Moritz Muehlenhoff at 2:42 PM
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