Re: distributed.net and seti@home

[ewout.meij () CIBASC COM (Meij Ewout MSM AD CH)]

> > 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.

Hi,

I feel like taking a risk today and start speaking for someone else, but I'd
hate to see some spend the weekend with a bad temper:

You just missed the ;) here, there wasn't any, so it must have been removed
by his comprimized binary 'distrubution'

Personaly, I thought it quite funny put.

Cheers,
Ewout