I'm not sure i understand what happens. In itself just cracking SSH is rather easy for governments, it's just 1024 - 2048 bits RSA, and they can factor that with a reasonable beowulf cluster with special hardware quite easily. You can already prove this for a rather old algorithm to be the case, and i'm sure the math guys got up with something much better nowadays - so will China.
So what's the scan really doing, is it a physical verification of where you communicate from, so a physical adress, so mapping every user on this planet to a specific physical location? How sure is it that China is behind everything knowing they already can crack everything anyway? China gets everywhere the blame, in the meantime i have lots of Irani's lurking around here. Vincent On Nov 21, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Leif Nixon wrote: > Greg Lindahl <lind...@pbm.com> writes: > >> Beowulf-list-participant Lief Nixon got quoted in Forbes! >> >> http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/11/17/chinas-great- >> firewall-tests-mysterious-scans-on-encrypted-connections/ > > Thank you. Yes, my little discovery seems to have attracted quite a > bit > of attention. > > Any list members with users logging in from China, please check > your ssh > logs. I'd be interested in comparing notes with you. > > -- > Leif Nixon - Security officer > National Supercomputer Centre - Swedish National Infrastructure for > Computing > Nordic Data Grid Facility - European Grid Infrastructure > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
