Cryptanalysis of A5/1 - "What's new about this attack is: 1) it's completely passive, 2) its total hardware cost is around $1,000, and 3) the total time to break the key is about 30 minutes. That's impressive."
Archive 22. February 2008
Erlware - the start of a package repository for Erlang. Could be very interesting - I know it from Perl's CPAN and Python's cheeseshop, both of which provide a lot of relief when using available modules.
memcachedb - interesting project. An implementation of the memcached server protocol, but the key/value pairs are not held in memory, but in a BerkleyDB database. Therefore, it is not as fast as memcached, but persistent across process runs. Since many languages have memcached bindings, a nice low-level database for typical key/value situations - could be interesting for use from LSL with a small HTTP REST frontend.
New Research Result: Cold Boot Attacks on Disk Encryption - wow. Simply amazing. This looks really bad for disk encryption - at least when it comes to high security requirements.