Alana Pradhan

The ‘Vijaya Dashami’ ritual

Anthropology

This article is based on a short ethnography conducted on the 10the day of the Hindu festival ‘Vijaya Dashami’ in Nepal. Although, symbolis...

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Tash Burnell

The Vultures, The Cows and The People

Anthropology

Ethnographic drawings and poetry based on Thom van Dooren’s article ‘Vultures and their People in India: Equity and Entanglement in a Time...

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Xinyi Lin

On the Water Shed of Becoming Old

Sociology

Abstract   This paper is about the relations between work, rhythm and life course among a group of elderly members of a rice paddy col...

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The paper, "On the Water Shed of Becoming Old," presents a compelling qualitative study into the lived experiences of aging among elderly members of a...

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Ella Boland

Political thought in a student housing Co-operative

Politics

This ethnography came out of a project by pre-honours Social Anthropology students, studying the space of the Edinburgh Student Housing Co-...

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Tom Delves

The Morality of Football-Betting in its Intersections with Capitalism and Social Reproduction

Sociology

Gambling involves a mixture of luck, knowledge, skill and nerve. Through interview discussions with my informant Stew I seek to analyse the...

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Simon Gerhalter, Samir Hodžić, Marcel Medwed, Marcel Nageler, Artur Folwarczny, Ventzi Nikov, Jan Hoogerbrugge, Tobias Schneider, Gary McConville, Maria Eichlseder

BEANIE – A 32-bit Cipher for Cryptographic Mitigations Against Software Attacks

Cryptography

In modern CPU architectures, various security features to mitigate software attacks can be found. Examples of such features are logical iso...

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Subhadeep Banik, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Takanori Isobe, Ryoma Ito, Kazuhiko Minematsu, Kazuma Nakata, Mostafizar Rahman, Kosei Sakamoto

Dialga: A Family of Low-Latency Tweakable Block Ciphers Using Multiple Linear Layers

Informatics

In this paper, we propose Dialga, a family of low-latency tweakable block ciphers designed to support 128/256-bit tweaks and 256-bit keys....

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This paper introduces Dialga, a new family of low-latency tweakable block ciphers engineered to support 128/256-bit tweaks and 256-bit keys. The prima...

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Akiko Inoue, Kazuhiko Minematsu, Rei Ueno, Naofumi Homma

How to Implement Authenticated Encryption on XTS-Enabled Devices

Cryptography

XTS is a block cipher mode for storage encryption. IEEE and NIST have standardized it, and it is widely deployed in real-world applications...

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This paper addresses a critical security vulnerability inherent in XTS, a widely adopted block cipher mode for storage encryption standardized by IEEE...

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Mario Marhuenda Beltrán, Mustafa Khairallah

On the Plaintext Awareness of AEAD Schemes

Informatics

Plaintext-awareness of AEAD schemes is one of the more obscure and easily misunderstood notions. Originally proposed by Andreeva et al., Me...

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Haoran Li, Shichang Wang, Meicheng Liu, Willi Meier, Dongdai Lin

Cube Attacks with Elimination Strategy: Key Recovery Attacks on Trivium

Cryptography

In this paper, we present a novel framework for cube attacks named cube attacks with elimination strategy. The core idea is to find specifi...

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This paper introduces an innovative cryptanalytic framework termed "cube attacks with elimination strategy," specifically targeting the Trivium stream...

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