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Schneier on SecurityA blog covering security and security technology. « Announcing: Movie-Plot Threat Contest | Main | GAO Homeland Security Reports » April 2, 2006Internet Hash ProjectI don't know if this is an April Fool's Day joke, but it's funny all the same. Posted on April 2, 2006 at 10:43 AM • 14 Comments To receive these entries once a month by e-mail, sign up for the Crypto-Gram Newsletter. Steven Murdoch • April 2, 2006 11:28 AM The goatse.cx ASCII art in the source suggests it is probably less than serious :-) Martin • April 2, 2006 11:29 AM "More great services utilizing the Internet Hash are coming soon, including open APIs." Ooh, open APIs. Then one could offer a _signed_ Internet Hash. That would give approximately the same security benefits as today's Internet PKI, ref. Peter Gutmann's "everything you never wanted to know about PKI but have been forced to find out"[1]! The site is hosted by kenshoto, the guys who run the defcon ctf, therefore, I guess it has something todo with the upcoming ctf for this years defcon. Also this should explain the goatse.cx ascii art. Thom • April 2, 2006 1:47 PM Funny. If you submit a site, say like their own, it appears to randomly flip-flop between being "confirmed" and "not verified". Anders • April 2, 2006 3:56 PM Well... Just take a look at the source code for the page. Does that look like a serious site? Funny, when I told the police that my hash project was just an April Fools' Day prank, they weren't very sympathetic. rob • April 2, 2006 8:01 PM Can't remember the author's name unfortunately (short story). Secure • April 3, 2006 3:12 AM "Get the current Internet Hash" returns a 128 bit value. Which (old and broken) algorithm may they use? Richard Braakman • April 3, 2006 3:39 AM It's a 256-bit hash, but they keep half the bits secret for increased security. John Ladwig • April 3, 2006 11:25 AM Reminds me of the "Internet Pre-shared Key", which has a lovely (googlable in the openbsd-misc archives) IETF origin story about a Jamaican restaurant and, natch, an expired draft: http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/I-D/... OpenBSD uses the key in their VPN sample config files. Just Me • April 3, 2006 1:12 PM Domain Name:NETHASH.ORG Just a guest • April 5, 2006 5:49 AM Hi! Has anybody looked at that html source code? There is a not really serious ascii picture... Some kind of fun? Akos • April 5, 2006 10:09 AM For sale:
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