Archive for April, 2007

WEF Global IT Readiness Report and Dado Banatao

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released its annual IT readiness report. This is a measure of how well government use IT and transform it into a competitive advantage. Here is the scoop from Ars Technica.
Denmark has been steadily climbing towards the number one spot in the GITR, and the report credits government policy there—and […]

Additional Characteristics of a Wireless Mesh Network

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

After my previous blog entry about WMN and after a bit more reading, two (2) additional important properties emerged that add to the definition of wireless mesh networks (WMN). There two (2) properties are described in brief below.

Multi-hop. This is to differentiate it from regular Access Point (AP) type wireless networks, WMN has the ability […]

Notes on the GSM A5 Algorithms

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

I was doing some browsing around and reading a bit about the new GSM mandated over-the-air communications cipher called A5/3 or the KASUMI cipher [3]. This is a more power cipher recommended as a replacement for the older A5/1 and A5/2 ciphers
[1] that have proven to be susceptible to real-time attack. Of course, I wanted […]