: The Piltdown Forgery . J. S. Weiner.

A Forgery Attack against PANDA-s

PANDA is an authenticated encryption scheme designed by Ye et al., and submitted to the CAESAR competition. The designers claim that PANDA-s, which is one of the designs of the PANDA-family, provides 128-bit security in the nonce misuse model. In this note, we describe our forgery attack against PANDA-s. Our attack works in the nonce misuse model. It exploits the fact that the message processin...

2016A Weiner Microbial Cell

In order to combat the on-going malaria epidemic, discovery of new drug targets remains vital. Proteins that are essential to survival and specific to malaria parasites are key candidates. To survive within host cells, the parasites need to acquire nutrients and dispose of waste products across multiple membranes. Additionally, like all eukaryotes, they must redistribute ions and organic molecu...

The McGurk Effect: Auditory Visual Speech Perception’s Piltdown Man

I draw an analogy of the McGurk effect to an episode in natural science. Piltdown Man was claimed to be the fossilized remains of a previously unknown early human. It took roughly 4 decades of controversy to conclusively learn that Piltdown Man was as a hoax because the natural scientists focused on the fossil of Piltdown Man rather than searching for other paleoanthropological evidence. I argu...

Improve Speech Enhancement Using Weiner Filtering

Speech enhancement aims to improve speech quality by using various algorithms. It may sound simple, but what is meant by the word quality. It can be at least clarity and intelligibility, pleasantness, or compatibility with some other method in speech processing. Wiener filter are rather simple and workable, but after the estimation of the background noise, one neglects the fact that the signal ...

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