We thank the anonymous referee #1 for the positive and constructive remarks. Just like the referee, we struggled to improve and simplify the presentation of the technical results. In section 2 we tried to illustrate in a simple way the role of coherence by considering the (weak) pseudo-maximal signals. Then, to justify the use of the wavelet transform, we showed how the coherence of phase infor...

The nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation is a popular and relatively simple model used extensively to describe the evolution of nonlinear water-wave groups. It is often applied in relation to the appearance of extremely steep (freak, or rogue) waves in the ocean. The limits of the applicability of the NLS equation, and in particular the relevance of the model to rogue waves, are examined here o...

Control theory is a field of mathematics and engineering concerned with manipulating the output of dynamical systems. This might sound like the perfect field of study for a control freak, however, the reader from a pure mathematical background, who is familiar with calculating exact solutions and rigorous proofs, should beware. It is only very rarely that the systems studied in Control Theory c...

The recent FREAK attack highlighted widespread support for export-grade RSA keys in TLS servers. We present the results of an IPv4-wide survey of TLS servers performed roughly one week after FREAK was announced. We found that only 9.7% of servers now support such export-grade RSA keys. However, we also found that some keys are repeated with high frequency, making each of them an attractive targ...

rarest freaks, and practitioners of the old school say now, "How is it that we never met with such a case ? " I am constantly assailed with some such remark as this, as though it were really possible to make a mistake in the diagnosis. Since March, 1883, when Lawson Tait performed his first successful operation on a case of ruptured tubal pregnancy, examples of this condition have been noticed ...