I had some trouble with my domain recently where it was pointing to a parked page. This was because my hosting provider didn’t update my registration in time, but this has all been resolved now. This dilemma got me thinking and I decided to purchase a dot name domain. ryan.lewis.name now points here!

I encountered this error yesterday after trying to fix some Windows bootloader issues in Ubuntu with ms-sys. Needless to say, I just created more issues and eventually couldn’t even mount my Windows partition from Ubuntu, as this would happen: # mount -t ntfs-3g -o force /dev/sda1 /mnt/win Unexpected clusters per mft record (-127). Failed to [...]

This is a paper that Josh Hollenbeck, Pat Wilbur, and myself wrote last semester for Cryptography. Just posting it for anyone who wants to read it. We present a method for zero-knowledge, hash-based challenge-response network authentication in lieu of transmitting a password across the network. Zero-knowledge protocols, like our method, offer authentication alternatives to prevent [...]

According to its website, the Number Theory Library (NTL) is a: high-performance, portable C++ library providing data structures and algorithms for manipulating signed, arbitrary length integers, and for vectors, matrices, and polynomials over the integers and over finite fields. I have been using it a lot because of the Cryptography class that I’m in this [...]