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 call COCONUT (for [...]
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crypto nuts
Posted in computering, hahas, mathematics, science on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
v-day
Posted in hahas, poetry, science on February 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
darwin & facebook
Posted in hahas, science on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From bioephemera:
[W]ith Facebook-like fanaticism, [Darwin] maintained a correspondence with some 2,000 friends, including 200 clergymen.
the X-possesor’s tale
Posted in hahas, poetry, science on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You ask why I can’t stand my ex-fiance?
He’s madly obsessed with – guess what? DNA!
He’s always turned on by that nucleic acid,
But everything else leaves him soggily flaccid!
I’m fine with him spending his days at the lab,
Indulging in macromolecular drab,
Taking his centrifuge out for a spin,
Observing the Meselson-Stahl with a grin,
Engaging in blottings of all [...]
Turns out that the words “fluorine poem” top the list of search terms that lead to my blog.
Which is misleading, because, up till now, there hasn’t been any poem on fluorine anywhere on this blog.
Poems are aplenty, but the only mention of Fluorine in this whole site is in my blogroll, where I have a [...]
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