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MacOS 27 - First Boot, (Tue, Sep 15th)

SANS ISC documents the expected network traffic macOS 27 'Golden Gate' generates on first boot to help defenders baseline their networks.

Johannes Ullrich of SANS Internet Storm Center captured roughly 300 packets from a macOS 27 'Golden Gate' system before user login, covering DHCP, IPv6 duplicate address discovery, DNS, and TCP behavior. macOS 27 resolves hostnames like albert.apple.com (device activation, certificate-pinned), push messaging hosts, and ipv4only.arpa for NAT64 networks. The OS still uses a TCP window scale of 6, ECN, and random timestamps, with only four TCP connections observed during boot. The analysis provides a reference baseline for security teams monitoring Apple endpoints.

SANS Internet Storm CenterSep 15, 15:23 UTC · 1d agoResearch

Has MIMO decoding been proved hard from lattice problems?

Researchers show the published lattice-hardness proof for MIMO decoding fails, as Regev's LWE reduction structure does not carry over to non-modular MIMO.

The paper re-examines Dean and Goldsmith's proposed polynomial-time reduction from lattice problems to MIMO decoding, which adapted Regev's reduction for learning with errors (LWE). Prior works had presented attacks and counterexamples against the construction, leaving the reduction's precise validity unclear. The authors identify which structural features of the LWE reduction fail to transfer to the non-modular MIMO setting, showing the published proof does not establish the claimed hardness of MIMO decoding. They distinguish flaws in the hardness proof from direct attacks on specific parameter choices and do not rule out physical layer security for MIMO systems in general.

arXiv cs.CRSep 4, 11:23 UTC · 13d agoResearch