A little bit of both

Just a Little Bit More

We extend the FLUSH+RELOAD side-channel attack of Benger et al. to extract a significantly larger number of bits of information per observed signature when using OpenSSL. This means that by observing only 25 signatures, we can recover secret keys of the secp256k1 curve, used in the Bitcoin protocol, with a probability greater than 50 percent. This is an order of magnitude improvement over the p...

A Little Bit About Nanotechnology

Defining Nanotechnology A nanometer is small. Very small. To be precise, a typical sheet of paper is 100,000 nanometers thick. Nearly 50 years ago, Richard Feynman gave a famous speech [1] in which the idea of nanotechnology was first envisioned. In it, he famously asked, “What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?” It took thirty years for microscopes to b...

Paradigms: Just a little bit of PostScript

It is all about creating EPS—with graphics— to be merged with (La)TEX scripts. The emphasis is on creating raw PostScript for simple symmetrical pictures. Asides, like incorporating accurate graphs of math functions, typesetting text along curved paths, or tables set sideways, next to reverse video, clipping and tiling have been addressed. A poor man’s mftoeps approach is touched upon: (declara...

Of Politicians and Technocrats, and Why Global Health Scholars Are Inevitably a Bit of Both: A Response to Recent Commentaries

A Little Bit of Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing

2352-6734/ © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Available online 18 October 2016 cross small, cross-sectional samples. Ten studies showed insignificant effects between experience and the likelihood of disengagement, seven showed a negative relationship, two had mixed findings, and three revealed a positive relationship. None of the studies presented or reported findings of curvilinear resu...