March 2010
As 'publications' go, this is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Internet Drafts (such as these) are considered works-in-progress, can be submitted by anybody and their grandmother, and expire in six months. They are really, really, not considered a big deal by anyone familiar with the process. But, they have one redeeming feature: one can blog about them very quickly.
So: please allow me to announce that for reasons I cannot explain, I have submitted two Internet Drafts to the IETF:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-herzog-setkey/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-herzog-static-ecdh/
That is all.
Though I can only wish that I had the energy to fully participate in this worthwhile celebration (things have been crazy-busy) I cannot let the day pass without noting that it is Ada Lovelace Day. I can get behind the concept: instead of talking even more about the women who are not in science and technology, let's celebrate the ones who are! But though I can think of a dozen women (easily) who deserve the honor, I have only the energy to point at the current list before collapsing.
I lie. I also take the opportunity to link to the best biography of Ada Lovelace ever written. (For those of you who are not computer scientists yourselves, take it from me: this is exactly what life is like as a computer scientist. Especially the end. Be sure to poke around that site for other Lovelace-related goodies.)
I would ordinarily regard this as a rather obscure piece of esoterica, too technical to blog about (and merely a technical report, besides) but:
- My beloved readers seem to like topics more technical that I would have thought, and (more importantly)
- It's my piece of obscure esoterica.
So, tech report or no, it gets a blog post.
While researching something unrelated, I stumbled across an interesting feature of CiteSeerX: "estimated venue impact factors." That is, it attempts to rank CS-related conferences and journals in terms of their 'impact.' However, something seems to be wrong with their algorithm-- there is no way that a single sub-specialty (security) can contain eight of the top 25 conferences.
I am proud to announce that I have been invited to join the Program Committee for The 12th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2010)-- Crypto Track. That is: this venue has a number of technical tracks, roughly reflecting different areas of study. The crypto track (to be ably co-chaired by Jonathan Katz and Gene Itkis) is new this year, but will (I trust) receive the same quality of submissions as the other, more established tracks.
