Spectrum Launch: How to conquer in-person conferences

Define and Conquer: How Semantics Foster Progress; A Response to Recent Commentaries

How to Launch A Birthday Attack Against DES

We present a birthday attack against DES. It is entirely based on the relationship Li+1 = Ri and the simple key schedule in DES. It requires about 2 ciphertexts of the same R16, encrypted by the same key K. We conjecture it has a computational complexity of 2. Since the requirement for the birthday attack is more accessible than that for Differential cryptanalysis, Linear cryptanalysis or Davie...

How to Increase the Acceptance Ratios of Top Conferences?

In the beginning was the pub. This work was triggered by a pub conversation where the authors observed that many resumes list acceptance ratios of conferences where their papers appear, boasting the low acceptance ratio. The lower the ratio, better your paper looks. The list might look equally impressive if one listed the rejection ratio of conferences where ones paper was submitted and rejecte...

How to stop public health conferences becoming trade fairs.

Reflecting the new wave of global public health, which now seems to be finally reoriented towards embracing its social mission and responsibilities, the 12th World Congress on Public Health, recently held in Istanbul, dedicated many of its sessions to ethics and the right to health. Indeed, the Congress title, ‘Making a Difference in Global Public Health: Education, Research and Practice’, soun...

How to be a Conventional Person

Recent work in personal identity has emphasized the importance of various conventions, or ‘person directed practices’ in the determination of personal identity. An interesting question arises as to whether we should think that there are any entities that have, in some interesting sense, conventional identity conditions. We think that the best way to understand such work about practices and conv...