I’ve (re)started the Cryptopals Crypto Challenges too many times to remember. I think I’ve implemented a Vigenère solution from scratch enough times, and I need a new technical challenge that I can periodically jump into with enthusiasm and then procrastinate into memory oblivion.

Some Preparatory Musings

I recently got an invitation to watch a debate between the UMBC philosophy and computer science departments regarding the ethics of brain-computer interfaces.

And Other Fun with Cryptography

I’ve been messing around with some basic cryptography challenges ever since DEFCON, which was a ton of fun and very informative. The most recent challenge involved breaking a Vigenere cipher (also known as a repeating…

Reflections on an Influential Perspective

In nearly every one of my graduate reading seminars, at some point, we were asked to read Professor Elke Duncker’s 2002 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) presentation, “Cross-cultural…

Pseudonyms I’ve Adopted for the Monograms

• Ulav Grado Hildabrand
• Alessandro Horatio Hernez
• Mortimer Marlin Mendelbaum
• Artemis Hogarth Arkham