At 11:25 PM 8/29/01 -0700, Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A group of researchers at Notre Dame figured out how to use the
>TCP Checksum calculations to get other computers to do number-crunching for them.
>
> "Below, we present an implementation of a parasitic computer
> using the checksum function. In order for this to occur,
> one needs to design a special message that coerces a target server
> into performing the desired computation."
>
>The article has the amount of great mathematical depth you'd expect from CNN :-)
>But it does say that the paper will be published in "Nature" this week.
And the message in my mailbox immediately after the above was Nature's ToC
including:
Parasitic computing
A-L BARABASI, V W FREEH, H JEONG & J B BROCKMAN
http://www.nature.com/nlink/v412/n6850/abs/412894a0_fs.html
Cheers,
Paul Pomes
