Thomas Pynchon: A Brief Chronology

"Thomas Reid's Critique of Joseph Priestley: Context and Chronology"

Art/Official Insemination: Social Reproduction in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon

Analyzing the Pynchon Gate Protocol

I analyzed the Pynchon Gate Protocol, a pseudonymous mail reply handling protocol introduced by Sassaman, Coen, and Mathewson, and in particular BitTorrent’s suitability for it’s purpose within that protocol. After an unfulfilling attempt at using PRISM, I wrote a BitTorrent simulator and used that to verify the feasibility of an attack delaying the distribution of the mail and possibly removin...

Lessons Learned From Previous SSL/TLS Attacks - A Brief Chronology Of Attacks And Weaknesses

Since its introduction in 1994 the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol (later renamed to Transport Layer Security (TLS)) evolved to the de facto standard for securing the transport layer. SSL/TLS can be used for ensuring data confidentiality, integrity and authenticity during transport. A main feature of the protocol is its flexibility. Modes of operation and security aims can easily be configur...

Reassessing the Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon Wiki: a new research paradigm?

Since the Against the Day Wiki launched in October 2006, the Pynchon Wiki collection has received over twenty thousand edits, making it one of the largest, dedicated literary reference Wikis. One can now view and add annotations to all seven of Pynchon's novels – only Slow Leaner and his nonfiction remain sans Wiki -, and a loose community of over four hundred contributors have done so. This pa...