
But anyway, when I walked into the class the other students were bragging about how they'd built ham radios when they were 7. My fantasy at the time was that some boy would do better than me at some math/science thing and my plan was to fall in love with him and marry him). Teachers are awesome.Anyway, before that I always realized I would be the top student in the class at any science/math class. My first introduction to computers was when a high school teacher noticed a computer programming class at a nearby college, signed a few of us up, drove us over there, waited for the class to be over, and drove us home. I never was a "take things apart" kind of person, though I liked logic problems. Where I wound up career-wise is just a totally random set of things. So we hope that the ones that we are using today, and the ones that we will use in the future, have been studied sufficiently by cryptographers that there won't be any future vulnerabilities. In our book we coined "The Fundamental Tenet of Cryptography", which we defined as "If lots of smart people have failed to solve a problem, then it probably won't be solved (soon)". They have different characteristics.signature size, key size, compute required for signing, compute required for verifying, etc. But there are several others.Īnyway, even without vulnerabilities, there won't be a single "best" one. So, yeah, that algorithm is out of the running. What does "broken" mean? A program on a single core could find a private key, given a public key, within a few hours, for the algorithm that was supposed to be 128-bit secure. It was one of the candidates for the "post-quantum" (again, I hate that term) public key algorithms. If there were alternate paths, things would loop, and worse yet, multiply the number of copies. A hard size limit to an Ethernet packet." So that is why Ethernet forwarding just moves packets around. The constraints for the "magic box" that would temporarily help customers interconnect a few Ethernet links, until people could fix the endnodes to include layer 3 were "no changes to the endnodes.

There is no hop count in the Ethernet header because it never occurred to the Ethernet inventors that anyone would want to forward Ethernet packets directly.there should be a layer 3 envelope. People built applications directly on Ethernet, with no layer 3 (e.g., IP) in their network stacks. Since they all have unique IDs built in, the election is done based on who has the numerically smallest ID.ĪNd indeed, the internet has lots of redundant pathways, and it should have. In order to create a tree, you have to pick one bridge to be the root.

"ID" is the unique identifier each bridge has.


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