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Submission + - The NES Mini is a $60 single board computer (and it runs Linux)

Submitted by romiz on Saturday November 05, 2016 @04:07AM

romiz writes: As the first samples of the NES Mini reach reviewers, its hardware specifications are now easy to find. With a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7, 256 MiB of RAM, and 512 MiB of NAND Flash, it is typical of the hardware found in Linux single board computers, like the RaspberryPi 2. Surprisingly for Nintendo, there does not seem to be any custom components in it, and it looks like it even does run Linux. The GPL license for the kernel and many other open source components is visible in the legal information screen. The source, however, is not available on Nintendo's open source page yet.

But it is the re-edition a 1980s video console: there is no network access, no hardware expansion port, and the 30 games cannot be changed. Changing the system runnning on it will probably be difficult.

Submission + - AF 447 Flight Recorder Found in the Atlantic (bea.aero)

Submitted by romiz on Sunday May 01, 2011 @02:03PM

romiz writes: The memory of the flight recorder for the Air France 447 flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed on June 1st 2009, has been found on the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean, and brought back to the surface in good shape. This is the data recorder, that saves the flight parameters. The search is still continuing in hope of finding the voice recorder containing the sounds recorded in the plane's cockpit.

Submission + - A new vulnerability in RSA cryptography ?

Submitted by romiz on Saturday November 18, 2006 @03:31PM

romiz writes: Branch Prediction Analysis is a recent attack vector against RSA public-key cryptography on personal computers, that relies on timing measurements to get information on the bits in the private key. However, the method is not very practical because it requires many attempts to obtain meaningful information, and the current OpenSSL implementation now includes protections against those attacks.

However, German cryptographer Jean-Pierre Seifert has announced a new method for BPA that is at the same time much more efficient that the previous ones, only needs a single attempt, successfully bypasses the OpenSSL protections, and should prove harder to avoid without a very large execution penalty.

The word is out in generalist media, and they don't like the implications...

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