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Plans for a "Sitebits" Project Initiated (2007-02-01 09:59:18.551870)
Development of a collection of self-sufficient web-apps is beginning with a design phase, and coding of proofs-of-concept.

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Concordia Student Subverts MS Vista DRM (2007-01-30 06:15:20.536359)
Concordia student Alex Ionescu Subverts Microsoft's Windows Vista DRM (Digital Rights Management). DRM has been (and is) a big bone of contention for advocates of freedom-of-use of computers and the content on computers. This news comes the day before Windows Vista official world-wide launch.

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NIST Already Initiated Effort to Develop Additional Hash Algorithms Before SHA-1 Cracked (2007-01-24 14:44:27.289468)

As a result of recent attacks on the SHA-1 hash function specified in FIPS 180-2 , Secure Hash Standard, NIST (National Institue of Standards and Technology) is initiating an effort to develop one or more additional hash algorithms through a public competition, similar to the development process for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

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SHA-1 Cracked (2007-01-23 02:49:26.712636)
From the Epoch Times:

Associate professor Wang Xiaoyun of Beijing's Tsinghua University and Shandong University of Technology has cracked SHA-1, a widely used data security algorithm."

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