Norman B. Hecht: (December 14, 1940-February 28, 2013)

Randomness in Cryptography February 14 , 2013 Lecture 6 : Encryption / Extraction

Let K ∈ {0, 1}n be a key distribution and let K ∈ S, where S is a family of distributions. From now on we call S a source. We want to use K as a secret key for some encryption scheme (Enc,Dec) to encrypt message m ∈ {0, 1}b. We take two approaches. Approach 1: Extract a traditional key R and use R to encrypt. R = Ext(K) where Ext is an extractor for distribution K. For example, if |R| = b set C...

ASGO's Third Biennial Meeting, December 12-14, 2013

Oncology (ASGO) 1st Meeting Tokyo in 2009, and 2nd Meeting Seoul in 2011, the 3rd Biennial Meeting was successfully held in the Westin Miyako Hotel, Kyoto, located in a beautiful suburb of Kyoto from 12 to 14 December 2013 (Fig. 1). Total number of registrants was 1,349 from 28 countries including 11 nonAsian countries. A total of 402 abstracts were submitted and it was the largest number ever ...

National Influenza Vaccination Week — December 8–14, 2013

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, state and local health departments, and other partners will observe National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW) during December 6-12, 2015, with educational and promotional activities across the country.

Cluster of HIV Infections Attributed to Unsafe Injection Practices--Cambodia, December 1, 2014-February 28, 2015.

In December 2014, local health authorities in Battambang province in northwest Cambodia reported 30 cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in a rural commune (district subdivision) where only four cases had been reported during the preceding year. The majority of cases occurred in residents of Roka commune. The Cambodian National Center for HIV/AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syn...

Digest February 2013