--- Log opened Sun Oct 10 00:00:31 2021 02:03 -!- jesseposner [~jesse@c-24-5-105-39.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 02:04 -!- jesseposner [~jesse@c-24-5-105-39.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has joined #secp256k1 09:14 -!- roconnor [~roconnor@host-45-58-217-8.dyn.295.ca] has quit [Quit: Konversation terminated!] 09:48 -!- BlueMatt_ is now known as BlueMatt 12:31 -!- Davidbak [~DavidBaki@c-174-61-163-5.hsd1.wa.comcast.net] has joined #secp256k1 12:33 -!- Davidbak [~DavidBaki@c-174-61-163-5.hsd1.wa.comcast.net] has quit [Client Quit] 12:35 -!- davidbak [~DavidBaki@c-174-61-163-5.hsd1.wa.comcast.net] has joined #secp256k1 15:27 -!- midnight_ is now known as midnight 15:48 < andytoshi> gmaxwell: i have a mentee who i've been teachign math/crypto to ... we are wrapping up implementing a MROS solver in a libsecp fork right now and need a new project. i think your stego thing would be a good fit 15:49 < andytoshi> do you know any coding theory textbooks offhand that'd be good for us to work through? 16:03 < gmaxwell> I'll look! 16:07 < andytoshi> thanks! been thinking about this a fair bit, i think this project is perfect for my mentee because it has several independent (and independently interesting) components so i can work at his pace, and if you and i (and sipa?) wanted to push forward separately it wouldn't step on any toes 16:07 < andytoshi> and also it would finally give me reason to work through a coding theory text 16:08 < sipa> i'm afraid I learned everything from an undergrad class + wikipedia 16:08 < andytoshi> do you remember the textbook that the class used? 16:09 < sipa> I don't know if there even was one. 16:36 < andytoshi> i found a book "modern coding theory" by richardson that i'm gonna try to use. it may be too advanced for the person i'm working with, but it has a lot of exercises and covers Viterbi decoding 17:52 -!- luke-jr [~luke-jr@user/luke-jr] has quit [Quit: ZNC - http://znc.sourceforge.net] 17:55 -!- luke-jr [~luke-jr@user/luke-jr] has joined #secp256k1 18:34 -!- jamesob [uid180710@helmsley.irccloud.com] has quit [Quit: Connection closed for inactivity] 19:19 < gmaxwell> https://files.catbox.moe/8d2bw1.pdf this is viterbi's 1971 paper and I recall it being reasonable accessible. 19:22 < gmaxwell> might want to see what textbook the mit opencourseware on this subject uses. 19:28 < gmaxwell> andytoshi: oh wow, I found a webpage on the technique I was discussing: https://dde.binghamton.edu/download/syndrome/ 19:29 < gmaxwell> https://daniellerch.me/ has a number of attack tools. 19:32 < gmaxwell> andytoshi: for other things I've liked Lin & Costello, Error Control Coding, 2nd Edition though I don't think I've looked at the non-algebraic code parts of it. 20:27 < gmaxwell> http://www.ka9q.net/isee/software/ka9q-ice-decoder-0.11.tar.bz2 ... here is the code for a really gigantic high performance convolutional decoder. (I had to bug the author to fix his website, lol) --- Log closed Mon Oct 11 00:00:32 2021