Round Two: Nabokov versus Pushkin

Nabokov and World Literature

In his paper "Nabokov and World Literature" Charles Stanley Ross thinks through the relationship between comparative literature and cultural studies by considering the absence of Nabokov's work in The Norton Anthology of World Literature. The problem seems to be that Nabokov's works are not susceptible to the kind of varying interpretations favored by the Norton's editors, although in practice,...

Nabokov, Teleology, and Insect Mimicry

Two-Round AES Differentials

In this paper we study the probability of differentials and characteristics over 2 rounds of the AES with the objective to understand how the components of the AES round transformation interact. We extend and correct the analysis of the differential properties of the multiplicative inverse in GF(2) given in [17]. We show that AES has characteristics with a fixed-key probability that is many tim...

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE One Round versus Two Round Elections: An Experimental Study

The paper presents a series of experiments in which participants were invited to vote in four one round elections and four two round elections, with the same set of five candidates, among which three were viable and two were not. The experiments were designed to test the arguments put forward by Duverger and Cox about the propensity to vote sincerely or strategically in one round and two round ...

Secure Two-Round Message Exchange

Cryptographic protocols are an integral part of today’s communication infrastructure, where information has to be secured on various levels. The security of cryptographic protocols has been studied for decades with numerous methods, focuses, and levels of abstraction. However, no model has been developed so far that captures the specifics of message exchange protocols that only consist of two r...