Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets

Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by Jabbles on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:47AM (#13722093)

Please don't dismiss something from your armchair. I've just mentioned that Google relies on this technology to secure their network.

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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by kuschku on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:57AM (#13722593)

The problem is that it’s basically a fancy version of using MAC addresses for auth.

I’m more surprised a Google engineer couldn’t circumvent it.

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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by billhathaway on Friday February 24, 2017 @10:30AM (#13724500)

If you read the "Beyond Corp" doc, there are also certificates involved.

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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by kuschku on Friday February 24, 2017 @11:12AM (#13724904)

Yes — I've described above that simply extracting them solves that issue. Overall it's fancy assymetric DRM. (And anything like that can be broken).

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Re:Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets by MertsA on Friday February 24, 2017 @01:51PM (#13726449)

>And anything like that can be broken

Yes, of course it can be broken, it only takes 2^256 attempts in order to do so.

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