I have been suspiciously absent from my blog, even though I don’t blog very much. Truthfully, I have been getting a lot of nothing done. Socially, the experiment is a failure, as I haven’t been able to make new friends. Relationship with my ex is still in a wild state of flux (we almost went a whole month without a fight!), and I have gone completely AWOL on any contributing to AMO.
On the positive notes, I have and continue to learn more about cryptography even though I haven’t finished (hell, you can say I barely started) reading the Handbook of Applied Cryptography which is a fascinating book that is low level. I have finished, and testing, a working implementation of SHA-1 and MD5 hash. It’s for a slightly bigger project that I had in mind.
My work is going very well. Since being assigned Tester/Release Manager (it’s not quite as involved as Mozilla release manager, believe me) I have been learning about NSIS installers and C++ testing frameworks, which is always fun and exciting and strange.
Moving on, I hope to have a working implementation of AES in March, even though I am mathematically challenged and will have no practical solution for it (it will be a solution without a problem). There are still several bugs assigned to me in Remora that I plan on finishing. I will still need to make a actual effort to get socially involved. I still have two goals that really should have started in January that includes:
- Getting my gun licence
- Going to the gym
My work will also be evolving soon to tackle our next release of the SmartSwipe. Totally not sure how much to give away, but it’s a tight deadline.
Ah, it feels good to reflect back on the last few months and have a plan for the future.