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		<title>Millionaire&#8217;s Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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?  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bryanmills.net/archives/2007/10/millionaires-problem/</link>
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		<title>CRLF, PHP, Postfix, and SPAM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we switched our production machines from running sendmail to postfix.  In this process our emails started getting caught as SPAM and it took a bit of digging to figure out what exactly was happening.  The error we got was:
BAD_HEADER: Improper use of control character (char 0D hex)
If you look up 0D hex [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bryanmills.net/archives/2007/10/crlf-php-and-spam/</link>
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		<title>I like Neil Diamond!  Is that private data?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I purchased a CD that was recommended to me by Amazon.  I was really impressed, although I&#8217;ve not listened to the entire CD I&#8217;m glad Amazon recommended it.  I&#8217;m not the only one with this experience but it got me thinking about the privacy of my data (in this case my purchase [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bryanmills.net/archives/2007/10/i-like-neil-diamond-is-that-private-data/</link>
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		<title>Information Dispersal Algorithms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bryanmills.net/archives/2007/09/information-dispersal-algorithms/</link>
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		<title>SCAR - Scatter, Conceal, and Recover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;m not good at writing (I kinda knew that already).  As a result I&#8217;m going to focus my energy on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bryanmills.net/archives/2007/04/scar-scatter-conceal-and-recover/</link>
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		<title>OPTWALL: A Hierarchical Traffic-Aware Firewall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OPTWALL which is a paper written by me, Subrata Acharya, Mehmud Abliz, and our adviser Taieb Znati is off to the printers.  It was accepted for publication at the 14th annual Network and Distributed Security Symposium.  The work was based upon the basic idea that to improve firewall performance the rule-sets should be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bryanmills.net/archives/2006/12/optwall-a-hierarchical-traffic-aware-firewall/</link>
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		<title>Music for a Rainy Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One stormy night (tonight) a young man (me) was eagerly seeking new music (John Mayer), as I previewed the music in iTunes I thought how easy it would be to drop $9.99 for a couple of mp3&#8217;s. I began debating my boycott of iTunes but quickly got upset because I couldn&#8217;t listen to my music [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bryanmills.net/archives/2006/09/music-for-a-rainy-night/</link>
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		<title>DVR Wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently changed my DVR from a ReplayTV to Comcast&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bryanmills.net/archives/2006/07/dvr-wars/</link>
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		<title>Mark Graduation off the list</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best thing about life is crossing goals off the list and moving onto something new and exciting. This weekend my brother was able to use a gigantic Sharpie and mark &#8216;graduate from college&#8217; off his list. He now holds a Bachelors of Arts from Bethany College and we haven&#8217;t been able to pry it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bryanmills.net/archives/2006/05/mark-graduation-off-the-list/</link>
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		<title>Finally a new computer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So as computer geeks go I&#8217;ve bought very few computers in my life.  In fact I&#8217;ve only bought one new computer.  And this purchase just took place, a brand-new Powerbook G4 12&#8243;.  All the other computers I&#8217;ve had over the years were either employers or old used machines I picked up on ebay.  Needless to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bryanmills.net/archives/2006/04/finally-a-new-computer/</link>
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