The story of SAGE

Couldn’t stop reading it. Fascinating. William Stein’s account of the development of SAGE. To Sage and it’s developers, and a bright, free future for mathematical software ahead!

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crypto nuts

Cryptographers have a sense of humour. Or maybe they’re just nuts. Read the following excerpts from peer reviewed papers and judge for yourself. Inspired by Carter and Wegman, we use simple primitives which we call NUT (for “n-Universal Transformation”) since they are so cheap to implement. We propose construction methods for block ciphers that we [...]

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to do

The bird has taken to the air!!! So many things I wanna do! Better list them out (O.O Did i just say “list them out”?? Ah! I mean, “list them down”… better start revising my phrasal verbs): Learn C++ LaTex Cryptography Number Theory Economics Mathematics of Finance Tai Chi Program Cryptogram solver Sudoku solver, implementing [...]

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with what?

The lesson here is that it is insufficient to protect ourselves with law; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. -Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography :D:D:D:D

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this is work?

THIS IS AWESOME!!!! I’m at “work” now! At my PRIVATE DESK in my PRIVATE CUBICLE, I have an open book on Cryptography from the library downstairs. My cubicle happens to be just next to the PANTRY WITH FREE HOT DRINKS, the printer/ photocopier room and the toilet! Oh, and I’ve got INTERNET RADIO, FACEBOOK, MSN [...]

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winded by windmills

It’s been close to a month since my last post, and one of the major reasons is that my creative impetus was fixated on a rather consuming programming phase: trying to create a Sudoku solver in MS Excel (without using macros or VB). I’m not a sudoku fan; I find that it doesn’t take much [...]

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