March 2006 - cypherpunks-legacy

Via unveils high performance mini-ITX line - C7 cores in production
by coderman 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

mmm, 4096 bit montgomery multiplier in core as MONTMUL instruction. SHA1 & SHA2-256 in core as XSHA instruction. in addition to the usual dual entropy sources and AES in core... see also http://www.via.com.tw/en/downloads/whitepapers/initiatives/padlock/programm… ---cut--- http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3116742043.html Via unveils high performance mini-ITX line Mar. 13, 2006 Via has announced a next-generation family of mini-ITX boards based on its new C7 processor family. "Epia EN" boards will offer a large performance boost over previous Epia boards, Via says. They target thin clients, car PCs, robotics, medical equipment, kiosks, and server appliances. (Click for larger view of Via Epia EN) Initial Epia EN boards will feature C7 processors clocked at 1.5GHz, or else an "Eden" version of the C7 clocked at 1.2GHz, for passively cooled applications. Advanced features include support for 533/400MHz DDR2 RAM, gigabit Ethernet, and an onboard SATA II RAID 0, 1, and O+1 controller. A prototype Epia EN board based on a C7 processor (Click to enlarge) The EN-series will eventually offer models clocked to 2GHz, with frontside-bus speeds up to 800MHz, Via says. First C7-equipped mini-ITX boards from Via The Epia EN boards will be the first mini-ITX boards to feature Via's next-generation x86-compatible processors, the C7 desktop, C7-M mobile, and C7-Eden embedded processors. All three are based on the same "C5J Esther" core, with different testing requirements and packaging. Touted features of the C5J Esther core include support for SSE2 and SSE3 instructions, said to improve 3D performance; a full-speed FPU (floating point unit), rather than the half-speed unit of earlier Via chips; 16 pipeline stages; and 128KB each of L1 and L2 cache. The core also integrates Via's cryptography hardware. It has a die size of 30 square millimeters, and is manufactured by IBM using 90-namometer SOI (silicon-on-insulator) technology. C7 die layout (Click to enlarge) The C7-series chips have a TDP (thermal design power, aka maximum power draw) of 12 Watts when clocked at 1.5GHz, Via says -- or about half that of a Celeron-M. Additionally, the chips dissipate 20 Watts when clocked at 2GHz, Via says, and offer better performance-per-Watt than Intel's venerable Pentium M, it claims. C7 vs. Pentium M in performance-per-Watt (Source: Via) Via announced the C7 in May of last year -- see that announcement for lots more details about the chip. CN700 Northbridge Along with new C7 and C7-M processors, the Epia EN-series boards will use Via's relatively new CN700 chipset, which just began sampling in December. The chipset includes a new "CN700" northbridge, along with a VT8237-series southbridge connected through a V-link host controller. The C7 processor, CN700 northbridge, and VT8237-R southbridge function diagram (Click to enlarge) Claimed performance leap Benchmarking against older mini-ITX boards based on C3 processors shows the C7-based Epia EN-series boards to offer 55 percent better results on MPEG encoding, 40 better results on business productivity performance, and about 10 percent better results on 3D graphics performance tests, Via reports. C3 v. C7 benchmark results (Source: Via) In addition to better performance, and performance-per-Watt, Via says the EN-series boards are more reliable, thanks to low heat dissipation. They are not as dependent as most boards on mechanical cooling systems, and don't generate enough heat to damage board components, Via says. Other claimed features include: * ATX power * DDRII 400/533 memory socket * UDMA 66/100/133 connectors * CN700 Northbridge * VT8237R+ Southbridge * PCI connector * LVDS/DVI modules available * 6-channel audio * Switchable (jumpers) S/PDIF / S-Video port * PS-2 connectors * USB 2.0 * Gigabit Ethernet Availability Via has not announced specific EN-series board availability, but says that boards will be available at a variety of price points soon. ---end-cut---

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Fwd: Tor wants to fund a few Ontario students
by coderman 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

Ontario cypherpunks students do what? :P ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Roger Dingledine <arma(a)mit.edu> Date: Mar 13, 2006 2:32 PM Subject: Tor wants to fund a few Ontario students To: or-announce(a)freehaven.net Hi folks, Thanks to Mike Gurski at Bell, the Tor project has some money to pay one or two students to help develop Tor. The strings are that they need to be students (of some sort) at a university in Ontario. If you know any outstanding students who can code well and have an interest in privacy/security, please pass this on to them. We want people who can work independently and write good code. We're ready to start whenever we find the right people. I'd like to find some Windows developers to help fill the gaps in our current skills, but if you know a brilliant developer I'm flexible. I've written up more details here: http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/OntarioStudent Thanks! --Roger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEFfME61qJaiiYi/URAhLtAJwKALCBWoZZyTy9632sne6DwIpOOQCeM1Xs GrN8kBZSLcDcT4RKrLR90z8= =jHPR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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by Jeremiah 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

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[dave@farber.net: [IP] NORAD orders Web deletion of transcript]]
by Eugen Leitl 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

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[dave@farber.net: [IP] Essay on Data Mining]
by Eugen Leitl 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

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Justin Berry and related incidents
by Greg Rider 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

This is happening more and more lately. Perhaps you might be interested in the Brian Peppers incident? It's very convoluted (intentionally made that way by members of Wikipedia who seek to supress this information), so allow me to oversimplify what happened: 1. A few kids wrote garbage articles about Brian Peppers, they were deleted. 2. Someone writes a well-referenced article about Brian Peppers, and it is re-deleted under the notion that it was somehow a "recreation of deleted content". 3. An administrator attempts to point this out, and the facts slowly become obfuscated. 4. A vote is held, twice, regarding the rewritten article, both times there being a majority (66%) vote supporting to keep the article. 5. Jimbo Wales DELETES the article, stating that, and I quote: "I didn't delete it on a whim. It was an inappropriate recreation of previously AfD's content, and should have been speedied right off the bat. The only thing out of process here was inappropriate recreation.--Jimbo Wales 03:11, 23 February 2006 (UTC)" There is a lot to sort out in this big mess, if you're interested I can provide you links. I also have access to deleted records, as all deleted edits are viewable by administrators of Wikipedia. If you need copies of anything which was deleted, please let me know, I'd be *MORE* than happy to help you. (So long as he has not had the developers delete the deleted entry, all deleted edits are more accurately decribed as "hidden".) I hope to hear from you soon. (P.S., see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_%28attorney%29 )

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[dewayne@warpspeed.com: [Dewayne-Net] Tracking Secret Operatives Not Too Tough]
by Eugen Leitl 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

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RE: Justin Berry, Jimbo Wales, and Wikipedia
by John Young 12 Mar '06

12 Mar '06

We posted Eric's comments to Wikipedia, and four mintues later they had been removed. We posted a Wiki comment at the Berry entry about Wikipeida's censorship of the item and a pointer to Cryptome's hosting of the comments, and that was censored five minutes later. So an entry about the censorship was added to Cryptome's entry on Wiki. Screen shots of the process: http://cryptome.org/justin-berry.htm

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