DeadBeefCafe

There we were, at a party (we like parties) discussing our ideas about this site. Of course, we ask ‘why do you think the site is named this’, and our intrepid party guest says “Oh, it’s because of that cypher thing, the attack … um … was it PGP”.

“Um, no, we’re not that smart”, but when we get home, we know how to use the best hacking tool on the planet. It’s easily findable at www.google.com.

So we look up our name in the greatest hacking tool ever devised by clever people and discover that ‘deadbeef’ has been used as a memory marker for allocated but unused memory. In this manner, if you try to use the memory before you’ve actually assigned it, you know your program is so much deadbeef. Or so the net tells us.

But that wasn’t what our fellow party guest was thinking of, and it wasn’t the first hit either, the first hit referenced something about “deadbeef attack” so we used our wonderful hacking tool and learned something additional. Apparently there was an attack on pgp 2.x keyids that was termed deadbeef, here for our noble readers.