Re: SSL CHALLENGE: ALERT! probable misallocation of keys?
I've been looking at the allocated list of keys, and I notice a possible problem: One user has allocated 50,000 segements: 0c2b-cf7a NOACK 0c2b 50000 Joe Thomas <jthomas@ogi.com> Now, it's possible this fellow has some vast farm of high-speed workstations, but I doubt it. Finger suggests that this is a linux box. My suspicion - and let me apologize in advance if I'm wrong - is that Mr. Thomas thinks he's allocated himself 50,000 keys, whereas he's actually got 838,860,800,000. Mr Thomas, if you're listening, PLEASE tell us what's going on. You've reserved 3/4 of the keyspace, and you're going to screw up the search unless you have an NSA-sized data center. I suggest we assume this is an error, and remove the block from the reserved list so that it can be re-allocated. Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation trei@process.com
"Peter" == Peter Trei <trei@process.com> writes:
> I've been looking at the allocated list of keys, and I notice a > possible problem: One user has allocated 50,000 segements: > 0c2b-cf7a NOACK 0c2b 50000 Joe Thomas <jthomas@ogi.com> > Now, it's possible this fellow has some vast farm of high-speed > workstations, but I doubt it. Finger suggests that this is a > linux box. [...] Finger reports that it is indeed a linux (1.2.9) box with a low load average (0.00, 0.00, 0.00 right now), but that Mr. Thomas is on from nemesis.ogi.com. nemesis refuses finger, telnet, and ftp connections, but, on WWW connect, asks for a userid and password for the "Marcam Development WWW site at nemesis.ogi.com." Marcam (http://www.marcam.com) makes something to do with computers, so Mr. Thomas could well have a bunch of computers at his disposal... (Even so, 50000 is a big number) I can't actually figure out what, specifically, Marcam makes. They produce applications which reduce costs, increase flexibility, and the whole shebang... but nowhere does it say what the programs *do*... Smells like an NSA front. -sq :)
| I've been looking at the allocated list of keys, and I notice a possible | problem: One user has allocated 50,000 segements: Where can one observe the progress of the computations? What is allocated etc? /Christian
"Christian" == Christian Wettergren <cwe@Csli.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> Where can one observe the progress of the computations? What is > allocated etc? try http://www.brute.cl.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/brute?op=stats How often is this updated? I've allocated (and ACKed) more keyspace than it shows I have, and I wonder if my requests might have gotten munged. So far, the only thing it shows I've acked is the keyspace I manually ACKed over the WWW interface (actually, I ACKed it a bunch of times -- the forms weren't producing responses, so I resent them a couple times..) -sq
How often is this updated?
whenever I type "make" -- I have disabled auto-updating while the server is over congested ...
So far, the only thing it shows I've acked is the keyspace I manually ACKed over the WWW interface (actually, I ACKed it a bunch of times -- the forms weren't producing responses, so I resent them a couple times..)
I fear that some ACKs may be lost :-(( 1) use brloop 0.04 and brclient 0.13 might help 2) send stdout and stderr to a log file and scan it :-(
Where can one observe the progress of the computations? What is allocated etc?
See "inspect the current status of the search" on http://www.brute.cl.cam.ac.uk/brute/ Note that I have disabled auto-generation of the stats file to help reduce the congestion ...
I have a small linux box doing 1000 keys per second. I had to re-download the brloop and brclient, cuse when I viewed them on the WWW page and attempted ot save them I forgo that Lynx will truncate soem lines, leaving me with some errors. I got complete correct versions an the box is chugging away. Nesta Stubbs "Betsy, can you find the Pentagon for me? Cynico Network Consulting It has five sides and a big parking lot" nesta@cynico.com -Fred McMurray-
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