Re: distributed.net and seti@home

[Steffen.Zahn () ICN SIEMENS DE (Steffen Zahn)]

> > > > > Granquist, Lamont <lamont () ICOPYRIGHT COM> writes:

> I did some porting work on seti@home back when I admin'd more than
> just Linux boxes, so I had the source, and really you were just
> doing FFTs precisely like the web page describes.  Of course I
> can't confirm that the data was *really* aracebo data and that it
> wasn't some NSA-inspired FFT-based factoring scheme to crack the
> Russian's RSA missile codes.  And of course I always secretly
> suspected that the linux porter had encoded a package into the
> binary distrubution which patched your kernel to rootkit your box
> and disable correct strace()ing of the seti@home binary, but I
> never had time to disassemble it on an uncompromised box and prove
> it.

Your claims regarding the Linux binaries are completely false. I did
only port the generic Unix sources of seti@home. I did NOT add any
of the security compromises you mention to the Linux binaries.
You should not make such claims without providing any evidence.

Steffen Zahn

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