Rare Book Code

The Masked Code Book (MCB)

In this paper, we present a new narrow block mode of operation, the Masked Code Book (MCB), that can be efficiently deployed in disk encryption applications. MCB is characterized by its high-speed in comparison to current state of the art narrow block modes of operation. It is about 25% faster than XTS (when AES is the underlying cipher). Furthermore, MCB does not face the limitations of XTS.

The Bible Code: A Book Review

Michael Drosnin has written a frightening book. Nuclear holocausts, calamitous earthquakes, the Nazi death camps, terrorist bombings, assassinations of world leaders who may have held some hope for humanity—a 182-page catalogue of very real threats to our world. The Bible Code purports the existence of a hidden code in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. This code, according to Drosnin, conta...

A Rare Book: Its Essential Qualifications

INA S MUCH as none of the manifold attempts to define “a rare book” has yet obtained such unanimity of approval as to be reckoned entirely satisfactory or final, investigation into this question still remains fair game, is still in the public domain. The phrase-“a rare book”-can mean any one of three different things depending on the sense in which it is used. Two of these meaningsthose used in...

Book Review: Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code

Speaker-adaptation of a code book of vector quantization

word recognition system atuned to a new speaker for vector quantization. by the following four This paper describes a speaker-adaptive in which word templates are indirectly through an adaptation of the code book The adaptation of the code book is made steps. ( 1) For each word class, word patterns spoken by several speakers are time-warped wi th the DP-algori thm and averaged to produce a spea...