Blog Archives: February, 2003
NSS Check-in
My first contribution of source code to the Mozilla project has just taken place.
I’m currently doing some work for Sun Microsystems Laboratories. We previously contributed an implementation of elliptic curve cryptography to the OpenSSL project.
Currently, we’re working on ECC for the Netscape Security Services library, which is used in the Mozilla browser, the Netscape and Sun webservers, and probably other places too.
Our first contribution was just checked in and will show up in NSS 3.8, whenever it comes out. I’ll be going back to Mountain View, California, this summer to continue working on this project.
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Card Carrying Mathie
I am now official a card-carrying member of the Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Combinatorics & Optimization Club of the University of Waterloo (how’s that for a club name?).
PMC logo Sure, I may be a member of lots of other organizations, but none of them gave me a fancy (i.e., blue) membership card. There’s something to be said for a blue membership card.
But the PMAMC&OC (they even have a cool acronym!) isn’t just a bunch of blue-card carrying geeks. No, it’s a bunch of blue-card carrying geeks that talk about math every once in a while. And I’m going to be one of them. Last term, at the Short Attention Span Math Seminars (SASMS), I gave a talk about elliptic curve cryptography. And at the upcoming SASMS, March 12 and 13, I’ll be giving another talk, although I don’t know about what. Guess I should pick that pretty soon.
Update 2003/02/28: I picked my SASMS topic: quantum cryptography.
Update 2003/03/11: My SASMS talk will be on Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 3:50 p.m.
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My First Blog
I gave in.
I wasn’t too sure about the blogging phenomenon, didn’t quite buy into it. Sure, some of my friends and colleagues kept blogs (i.e., Cecilia), but that was just a passing fad, wasn’t it? And besides, my life’s not interesting enough for other people to want to read about.
But then I decided that my blog wasn’t for other people to read about my life (well, it is a little bit) but more for me to remember things. I have an awful memory, dear reader. Perhaps, by keeping a blog, I’ll be able to find out in 10 years what it was I was doing on this day. And it will make things really easy for my biographer.
You may not see too much activity over the next few days. I’m going to take blogging slow, get used to using the system, and figure out a writing style. See you then!
As you spend time exploring my site (and I know, dear reader, that you will), you might find entries from more than a few months ago. That’s revisionist history. See, one of the reasons I wanted to keep a blog was to have a place to write down the URLs of interesting web sites I visited. So I’m going back and filling in URLs that I thought were interesting, with rough estimates of when I discovered them.
So to keep things official, this is still my first official blog entry. Think of it as the Ministry of Truth in action. (Even this paragraph is a revision.)
Update 2003/02/27: I’ve finally got a template that more or less works in Internet Explorer for Windows. The page section and title still doesn’t display properly (IE 5.5 and under for Windows don’t handle CSS2 position: fixed; I don’t know if IE 6 does or not… anyone?). Encourage Microsoft to support the standards or try another browser that does: Mozilla.
