* Posts by ellisgl

6 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Mar 2016

Google aims disrupto-tronic ray at intercoms. Yes, intercoms

ellisgl

There's an app for that.

CB on Mobile.

Scared of that new-fangled 'cloud'? Office 2019 to the rescue!

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And everything will ether have a GUI update or functions removed.

Outlook will probably only get a small GUI face lift, and nothing that people have been requesting for years. One example would be having a signature per "Send As...".

Exchange upgrade from 2010 to 2013 (from a multi-tenant deployment) has shown to make things worse. Trying to force SharePoint on people by trying to take away share folders has been a bitter point. Who like SharePoint?

Good luck securing 'things' when users assume 'stuff just works'

ellisgl

Laziness Strike again.

I think devices should force you to change the password the first time you login. New router, well, it should take over the DNS and force you to login the first time. Annoying? Yes. Security enforced: Yes, but of course if you force someone to use a long password (12+ chars), and it doesn't match anything on a common list like, "correcthorsebatterystaple"

SHA3-256 is quantum-proof, should last billions of years

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Rainbow Tables

Hashes can be attached via Rainbow Tables. See this:

https://emn178.github.io/online-tools/sha3_512.html

Type in "password" it's the same each time, or some random thing. It's "fast" in a JavaScript implementation, which means it should be fast in a GPU or FPGA. I know that the hitting with a dictionary list will be "quick", but the brute force might be slower.

What about hash clashes?

Best is do some password scheme that encode the password with several interval methods. Yes it slows things down. Of course if the "hackers" get hold of the database and the source code which hashes/encrypts the password, it's only time to brute force it.

Mellanox says 25 Gbps is the Goldilocks speed for flashy data flows

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Ah, because 25Gb/s/Fiber pair (bi-direction) is new standard?

Oracle's JET flies into open source skies

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Would be great if their site example site didn't go down.