Published at: 01:12 pm - Sunday December 16 2018
This article is part of a series of hands-on tutorials introducing FFA, or the Finite Field Arithmetic library. FFA differs from the typical “Open Sores” abomination, in that — rather than trusting the author blindly with their lives — prospective users are expected to read and fully understand every single line. In exactly the same […]
Published at: 09:11 pm - Sunday November 25 2018
This article is part of a series of hands-on tutorials introducing FFA, or the Finite Field Arithmetic library. FFA differs from the typical “Open Sores” abomination, in that — rather than trusting the author blindly with their lives — prospective users are expected to read and fully understand every single line. In exactly the same […]
Published at: 12:11 pm - Thursday November 22 2018
This article is part of a series of hands-on tutorials introducing FFA, or the Finite Field Arithmetic library. FFA differs from the typical “Open Sores” abomination, in that — rather than trusting the author blindly with their lives — prospective users are expected to read and fully understand every single line. In exactly the same […]
Published at: 06:11 pm - Saturday November 17 2018
This article is part of a series of hands-on tutorials introducing FFA, or the Finite Field Arithmetic library. FFA differs from the typical “Open Sores” abomination, in that — rather than trusting the author blindly with their lives — prospective users are expected to read and fully understand every single line. In exactly the same […]
Published at: 06:11 pm - Tuesday November 13 2018
The long-promised Keccak-V regrind of the current FFA codebase appears below: Title VPatch Seal “Chapter 1: Genesis.” ffa_ch1_genesis.kv.vpatch ffa_ch1_genesis.kv.vpatch.asciilifeform.sig “Chapter 2: Logical and Bitwise Operations.” ffa_ch2_logicals.kv.vpatch ffa_ch2_logicals.kv.vpatch.asciilifeform.sig “Chapter 3: Shifts.” ffa_ch3_shifts.kv.vpatch ffa_ch3_shifts.kv.vpatch.asciilifeform.sig “Chapter 4: Interlude: FFACalc.” ffa_ch4_ffacalc.kv.vpatch ffa_ch4_ffacalc.kv.vpatch.asciilifeform.sig “Chapter 5: “Egyptological” Multiplication and Division.” ffa_ch5_egypt.kv.vpatch ffa_ch5_egypt.kv.vpatch.asciilifeform.sig Chapter 6: “Geological” RSA. ffa_ch6_simplest_rsa.kv.vpatch ffa_ch6_simplest_rsa.kv.vpatch.asciilifeform.sig Chapter 7: “Turbo […]
Published at: 06:11 pm - Tuesday November 06 2018
In addition to phf’s excellent vpatch viewer, there will now be a page, generated via gnathtml, to help the interested reader to explore the moving parts of FFA. Click here to view Ch.11, with ffa_calc.adb as the root node. All subsequent chapters will also be offered in this reader-friendly format, in addition to the usual […]
Published at: 10:09 pm - Monday September 17 2018
This is a simple library for Ada, to replace the asinine GNATSockets item. Supported: Unixlike OS back-end. Open/close datagram socket on given local IP and port. Transmit datagrams of fixed length. Receive (blocking) datagrams of fixed length, rejecting shorts, saving the originator’s IP/port. Handle all possible OS error conditions. Permanently unsupported: Microshit back-ends. TCP. IPv6. […]
Published at: 09:07 pm - Monday July 30 2018
This article is part of a series of hands-on tutorials introducing FFA, or the Finite Field Arithmetic library. FFA differs from the typical “Open Sores” abomination, in that — rather than trusting the author blindly with their lives — prospective users are expected to read and fully understand every single line. In exactly the same […]
Published at: 09:02 pm - Tuesday February 13 2018
This article is part of a series of hands-on tutorials introducing FFA, or the Finite Field Arithmetic library. FFA differs from the typical “Open Sores” abomination, in that — rather than trusting the author blindly with their lives — prospective users are expected to read and fully understand every single line. In exactly the same […]
Published at: 04:01 pm - Sunday January 28 2018
This article is part of a series of hands-on tutorials introducing FFA, or the Finite Field Arithmetic library. FFA differs from the typical “Open Sores” abomination, in that — rather than trusting the author blindly with their lives — prospective users are expected to read and fully understand every single line. In exactly the same […]