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Outside of SSL, Notes/Domino, and federal PKIs, PK cryptography hasn't caught on. SSL is hugely successful in providing network protection. But its server authentication feature is currently useless in phishing attacks, and its client authentication is largely unused. A number of user studies indicate that while some subset of users know about and notice "the padlock", few know what it really i...

McCarthy scholarship has predominantly tended to stress the writer’s revisionism with regard to his rendering of the myth of the American West in Blood Meridian (1985). McCarthy’s novel has beenmainlyhailed as a critique of the violence of manifest destiny. This study aims to delineate aspects of McCarthy’s narrative which resist the predominant view of him as a revisionist. In this re...

In this paper I examine a recent artistic attempt to publicly visualize a future at risk, Alexis Rockman’s mural painting Manifest Destiny. By turning to J. Robert Cox’s work on the “Locus of the Irreparable,” I contend that Manifest Destiny compels viewers to see the irreparable nature of global climate change in terms of the unique, precarious, and timely. Arguing that Rockman’s creation is a...