>>>>> Granquist, Lamont <lamont_at_ICOPYRIGHT.COM> writes:
> I did some porting work on seti_at_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_at_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_at_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.
Steffen Zahn
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