| I don't have a lot of time to write; I'm having my fifth (I think) upper endoscopy done tomorrow, which means that the day's going to be a wash; and Yom Kippur is thursday, and I need to cook, so... | |
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| Don't forget to go and donate some money to schools through
our DonorsChoose challenge. Seriously - throw them a couple of bucks. It doesn't need to be much. There are around three thousand people... | |
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| Now, we're finally reaching the point where the block-cipher stuff gets really fun: block cryptanalysis.
As I've explained before, the key properties of a really good
encryption system... | |
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| Every year at ScienceBlogs, we do a charity drive for
DonorsChoose.org. If you haven't heard of them, DonorsChoose is a charity that takes proposals from schoolteachers, and lets people pick... | |
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| Ok, another batch of questions have come in, all variants on
the same theme.
The question is, if mortgages are at the root of the current economic disaster, how can it possibly result in close... | |
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| There is at least a little bit of interesting bath math
to learn from in the whole financial mess going on now. A couple
of commenters beat me to it, but I'll go ahead and write about
it... | |
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| With the insanity that's been going on in the financial world
lately, a bunch of people have asked me to post a followup to my
earlier posts on the whole mortgage disaster, to try to... | |
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| Sorry for the slow pace of the blog lately. I've been sick with a horrible
sinus infection for the last month, and I've also been particularly busy with work, which have left me with neither the... | |
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| So, as it turned out, I made a major screwup in my post earlier today on modes of operation. Rather than just edit the post, I'm adding a new post with the corrected description of the counter mode,... | |
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| My apologies for how slow the blog has been lately. I've been sick with a horrible
sinus infection for the last month. I saw an ENT on wednesday, and with massive doses of antibiotics and steroids,... | |
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