My Reading List in Dec 2020
A collection of my interesting blogs, talks, researches I read in a month
My reading list
Hardware
RISC-V instruction, compact is good Compact may use more instruction, but actually the size is the same, so verbose is better. It’s nice to know that there is no status register in RISC-V, it really enables parallel execution by removing dependency.
Software
The future of 32-bit Linux: 32-bit Linux will stay around for many years.
Bit Hacks: OMG, this slide is awesome. My favorite: No-Branch Minimum
Interactive server side: I love this framework, one thing though, it’s written in Ruby, it’s unlikely I will learn ruby in the next few years.
Speeding up independent binary searches by interleaving them
Binary Search Reconsidered - 2011/04/18 I never thought that binary search can be implement in simpler way, with simpler explanation.
Cryptography
25519 (yes, that’s a short and enigmatic title) - Frank Denis: Nice visualization of 256 bits multiplication using 5x51-bit rather than 4x64-bit. Reason? No carry chain propagation.
Machine Learning
Igel – A CLI tool to run machine learning without writing code: Very useful for quick prototyping ML classifier.
Tools
ImHex: I personally think this tool is equivalent or better than 010Editor. And it’s free too.
Ok so that’s all I read this month.
Duc Tri Nguyen
Graduate Research Assistant
My research interests include implementation of Post-Quantum Cryptography using High Level Synthesis in FPGA and NEON instruction in ARM platform, beside, sometimes I play CTFs, Crypto and Reverse Engineering are my favorite categories.