Hacking

The death cough is back.

In other news, they finally released the second homework assignment of the semester in my computer security class. It actually looks like it might be pretty fun; we're supposed to implement a side channel padding attack on some text encrypted using CBC. The only part I'm kind of worried about is writing the code to query their web page...I haven't done much HTML hacking and we've only got a week to get it done.

Finally, I'm trying to decide what to take in the spring. My options, aside from continuing research, include everything from taking no technical classes and finishing out an IR minor, to taking a couple ECE classes (radar imaging + network security) and a couple history classes, to taking a hard CS class (either OS or distributed systems) and a couple history classes.

I'm really tempted towards OS but that's going to be a lot of work...not that I'm not up for it, but I have to make sure I absolutely want to get myself in that deep before I do.