The Birthday Paradox and Attack
By Daniel Miessler on September 27th, 2007: Tagged as Cryptography | Information Security | Mathematics
I’ve added a new piece to the /study site. It’s a very short explanation of the birthday paradox and attack.
Sample Original Content
Information Security
- Defining Information Security
- 25 Infosec Interview Questions
- 10 Firefox Plugins for the Infosec Professional
- An SSH Security Experiment
- The Diffie-Hellman Protocol
- Differences in SYN Packets
- The Birthday Attack Explained
- About UNIX/Linux Permissions
- Security Isn't About Technology
- Cross Site Scripting Explained
- Security and Obscurity
- CISSPs Need to be Technical
Tutorials and Primers
- A
tcpdumpTutorial - An Encoding Primer
- An
lsofTutorial - Using Splunk as a Syslog Server
- Using
findandxargs - Managing Your Website With Git
- Thinking Through Subnetting
- Explaining Network Ports
Culture & Society
- Lifecasting and Society
- 10 Things Every Westerner Should Know About the Middle East
- The Bimbo and the Caveman
- Is Having Children Wrong?
- The Nice Guy Paradox
- The Quality Of a Society
- Socialism and Anarchy
Technology & Science
- Building a Lifestream Interface
- Submiting Your Own Content
- How Planes Actually Fly
- Could You Prove Evolution?
- How to Pronounce "Linux"
- How to Pronounce "Ubuntu"
- Does Acceleration Depend More on Horsepower or Torque?
- How to Pronounce "OS X"
- How to Pronounce "Rijndael"
Politics
Philosophy & Religion
- An Atheist Debate Reference
- Meaning is an Illusion
- A Collection of Musts
- The Delusion of Free Will
- Societal Implications of Our Having No Free Will
- Outrageous Beliefs Are Not Equal to Claims They Are False
- Was the Last Time Your Last?
- How I Became an Atheist
- A Letter to Religious Moderates