Lets assume there are two millionaires, named Alice and Bob. Alice and Bob what to know who is richer without revealing how much money either one of them have. This is what is known as the millionaires problem, originally introduced by Andrew Yao [paper link]. Why am I talking about this? […]
Recently I purchased a CD that was recommended to me by Amazon. I was really impressed, although I’ve not listened to the entire CD I’m glad Amazon recommended it. I’m not the only one with this experience but it got me thinking about the privacy of my data (in this case my purchase […]
Information dispersal algorithms are used for splitting data into multiple pieces such that given some group of these pieces the original data can be still be read. In general, the goal of information dispersal is to divide data into f pieces so that a subset of k of those pieces can be used to […]
After several painful months of writing my masters thesis it is finally done. I feel really good about the work, I believe its original and could have some commercial application.
I have learned that I’m not good at writing (I kinda knew that already). As a result I’m going to focus my energy on […]
I recently changed my DVR from a ReplayTV to Comcast’s Motorola DVR, which is surprisingly good. There are several clunky issues in the Comcast interface but I can deal with that. I switched for two main reason; 1) there has been no updates to the Replay software in the last year; and 2) The cost […]