Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 21

During the last few days, I found several references to a beautiful just-published paper, which I hope everybody reads: The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, by Phillip Rogaway; Cryptology ePrint Report 2015/1162, published on December 1st this year. It is more an academic essay than most crypto-related papers, and a long one at that (46 pages, packed with references and anecdotal notes). But it is surprisingly easy to read. I am sitting in front of my computer while my students work on their final exam, and I have got over half way through the text; earlier today I looked at...

Attachments Poster presentado en el III Congreso de Seguridad de la Información (ESIMECU-IPN, oct 2015) (8982 KB) Presentación empleada para el Congreso de Seguridad en Cómputo 2015 de DGTIC/UNAM (3059 KB)

Last week, Senator Omar Fayad presented one of the prime examples of a poorly redacted law that, if enacted, will make basically any way of computer use illegal. And yes, even if he states this is merely a draft, it has so many factual and conceptual errors that there is no way to trust sanity can be regained at any point. Oh, and before I continue with this rant: If the topic interests you, I suggest you to read the 10 key points about Ley Fayad, the worst Internet initiative in history, published by r3d.mx. [update] An English equivalent of...

Attachments Presentación (formato PDF) (13958 KB)

Found in a toy seen at my local Walmart…

I will join Lars and Tincho in stating this, and presenting a version contrary to what Norbert portraits. I am very glad and very proud that the community I am most involved in, the Debian project, has kept its core identity over the years, at least for the slightly-over-a-decade I have been involved in it. And I am very glad and very proud that being less aggressive, more welcoming and in general more respectful to each other does not counter this. When I joined Debian, part of the mantra chants we had is that in order to join a Free...

Attachments Libre_diseminiación_y_cultura_de_la_remezcla.pdf (239 KB)

Discutir acerca de mecanismos de virtualización implica cubrir una gran cantidad de tecnologías distintas. Y no me refiero con esto a diferentes proveedores que ofrecen productos con funcionalidad similar, sino que a herramientas de muy distinta naturaleza, que a veces incluso no parecen tener nada que ver entre sí. La primera acepción que vendrá a la mente de muchos, es la virtualización asistida por hardware, donde una computadora con ciertas capacidades de hardware (disponibles en la arquitectura x86 desde hace ya diez años, y hoy presentes incluso en los CPUs de más baja gama) ejecuta un hipervisor, software específico que...

Today I was refered to the publication of an “agreement” signed by my university’s Rector: The Agreement that establishes the General Guidelines for the Open Access Policy of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. This is a document we have been waiting and pushing for throughout several years; I got involved in the Network of Digital Collections (Red de Acervos Digitales), RAD-UNAM back in 2011, and am honored to be its current coordinator, but this group has roots back in 2005. And, of course, by then several other people had been working on the topic without formal coordination. Not only we...

OK, I already bragged that our book on Operating Systems is finally printed and has, thus, been formally published. What I had not yet mentioned is how we planned its physical distribution. Yes, it is available for sale at some UNAM libraries… But coming to UNAM is sadly an option only for people who are in Mexico City. I have been quite busy, and was unable to come up with anything earlier, but I have finally finished setting up a decent although minimal web page for the book. In it, I mention the possible ways you can get your own...