HSM, NFC, GPU, Kindle Dash

HSM
I made a true triple DES key, loaded it into a HSM (software emulation)
It gave a correct KCV (encryption of 00..00) which had me fooled
But upon extraction (getKey) it gave a different result
Conclusion HSM double DES only!
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Android 2.3.3 release, Google has added new capabilities for developers, including updates to the API ... that now allow for both reading and writing to standard NFC tags.
Dude..... its about more than tags
- we have a Nexus S in the office, it almost works for our reload app...
hope I can get some time to play with it (NZ1100?)

According to the Android Developers blog, some of the new features include:


A comprehensive NFC reader/writer API that lets apps read and write to almost any standard NFC tag in use today.
Advanced Intent dispatching that gives apps more control over how/when they are launched when an NFC tag comes into range.
Some limited support for peer-to-peer connection with other NFC devices.
For end users of NFC-enabled Android devices, what this means is that applications now have more control about how they are launched when an NFC tag is read. For example, apps could listen for specific tag content or tag technologies, and only launch when a match was made. Plus, applications running in the foreground could stop another app from launching upon the tag reading event, if need be.


The updated platform also provides a limited peer-to-peer communication protocol
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/02/android-233-platform-new-nfc.html
NFC-A (ISO 14443-3A)
• NFC-B (ISO 14443-3B)
• NFC-F (JIS 6319-4)
• NFC-V (ISO 15693)
• ISO-DEP (ISO 14443-4)
• Mifare Classic
• Mifare Ultralight
NFC Forum NDEF tags
androidcommunity

developer.android
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.Graphics Processing Unit  for cracking passwords..the GPU produces the correct password in a fraction of the time. On a Windows machine he pitted the Cain password recovery tool which uses the CPU for its calculations against ighashgpu which uses ATI or Nvidia graphics cards to do the deed. Hands down ighashgpu is the fastest; with Cain taking about one year to crack an eight character password while ighashgpu can do it in under nineteen hours.

hackaday
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GPGPU computing ... doing general calculations on graphic cards (GPUs) rather than CPUs. ... GPUs ... rendering frames .... people started realizing that GPUs are far more efficient at handling highly parallel tasks ... GPUs are used to speed up video conversion, video processing, doing scientific calculations, folding and password hash cracking.
ighashgpu.
golubev

how many passwords the GPU has churned out per second. Dude, it’s 3.334 billion passwords.

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Kindle seems nifty. But : dash it!
lunascafe typography-is-about-reading-and-so-are
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