July 31, 2015
A Little Bit of Fun
I’ve recently put a free book up on Apple’s book store. It’s a little bit of fun I did in my ‘spare’ time. I call it “Doing Stuff With C.” Here is the URL. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/doing-stuff-with-c/id1023155821?mt=11
I’ve tried to take a simplified, light-hearted approach to introducing C to someone who doesn’t know anything about it. I envision this as the first of a free book series, Doing Stuff With…., that covers the same material in each book but for different languages/platforms. I’m hoping to have the next book, Doing Stuff With Java, done next week.
I’d love to hear feedback on this little bit of fun and where to take the series next (I’m already planning Doing Stuff With Swift).
FYI, you will find other for-money books by me on Amazon and the other online stores. Don’t buy them. They are out of date. I did them through traditional publishers. That causes problems with keeping the information from going stale.
All of this writing AND working on Swiftly Secure??? Good thing I’m taking the next 5 weeks off from work!
Thanks.
Encryption development update
In order to continue with the development of my socialist millionaire protocol implementation that uses a 4096 bit key I need to find a generator for a Galois field of that size. This is no short term undertaking. Even using the access I have to a supercomputer it is going to take a while to find a generator.
The current level of mathematical understanding is that these generators must be brute-forced since there is no known pattern for what is and isn’t a Galois generator. So while my code is using the supercomputer to do a brute force search, I’m attacking the problem of finding a pattern. I’ve attempted to take a non-obvious approach and have already seen some interesting patterns. If what I’m seeing as patterns hold, I should be able to find a generator long before the brute force approach does. That would be nice since checking even one generator for 2^4096 values to see if the generator actually is a generator takes a long time, let alone multiple possible generators.
I’m eager to get the pattern found so I can share it with you and complete the SMP implementation.
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