Abstract The Aldabra giant tortoise ( Aldabrachelys gigantea ) is one of only two remaining species worldwide. Captive-bred A. are being used in rewilding projects the Western Indian Ocean to functionally replace extinct endemic and restore degraded island ecosystems. Furthermore, large-scale translocations may become necessary as rising sea levels threaten wild population on low-lying Atoll. C...

A digest function is a sort of universal hash that takes a key and a message as its inputs. This paper will study these functions’ properties and design in the context of their application in manual authentication technology. Frequently a digest function needs to have a very short output (e.g. 16–32 bits) and no key is used to digest more than one message. These together with other characterist...

When blood plasma proteins are depleted by bleeding with return of the washed red cells (plasmapheresis) it is possible to bring dogs to a steady state of hypoproteinemia and a uniform plasma protein production on a basal diet limited in protein. Such dogs are clinically normal but have a lowered resistance to infection and certain intoxications. Casein digests given by vein or subcutaneously t...

Restriction Site Mapping is one of the interesting tasks in Computational Biology. A DNA strand can be thought of as a string on the letters A, T, C, and G. When a particular restriction enzyme is added to a DNA solution, the DNA is cut at particular restriction sites. The goal of the restriction site mapping is to determine the location of every site for a given enzyme. In partial digest metho...

We explore the idea of creating a hash function that produces an s-bit digest from a compression function with an n-bit output, where s > n. This is accomplished by truncating a hash function with a digest size of ln-bits. Our work answers the question of how large l can be while creating a digest of sn-bits securely. We prove that our construction is secure with respect to preimage resistance ...

This specification defines how HTTP Digest Authentication [Digest] can be used as a SASL [RFC 2222] mechanism for any protocol that has a SASL profile. It is intended both as an improvement over CRAM-MD5 [RFC2195] and as a convenient way to support a single authentication mechanism for web, mail, LDAP, and other protocols. Leach, Newman Standards Track [Page 1] Digest Authentication as a SASL M...

The orangeback flying squid, Sthenoteuthis pteropus, is a species of significant potential value that widely distributed in the tropical and temperate waters Atlantic Ocean. There have been no reports population genetics effective molecular markers for this due to lack reliable information regarding its genetic structure many individual differences, as well complex changeable life history. Ther...