BOPs

BOP is the English (or Cambridge) term for Party.

We have several BOPs in our college. From what I've seen there is one every week or two. Two weeks ago we went for the Halloween party which was very fun. Most of the people were dressed in all kind of costumes. We had some beers and nice cocktails. The drinks in our bar are really cool and chip :)

Today there is a BOP with the 70's music. Next week we have our own Oktoberfest. This Darwin Oktoberfest seems very popular as tickets are already sold out.

On a side note, me and Dana are celebrating two years since our formal wedding :)

Hacking ciphers

We do many things but last week I did something particularly amazing (for me). It was the first time I've actually broken a cryptographic protocol.

For one of our courses (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0910/R08/) we had to do a presentation on one topic. So I did something in braking Smartcard's security (yes, those cards you use to take money out of an ATM or get Pay-TV services).

It was really fun when I got to implement a small crypto algorithm and also I got two different ways of hacking it.

Something also huge (again, for me...) is the presentation of our teacher on eavesdropping attacks. He can practically see ANYTHING is going on your monitor (laptop, LCD, whatever). He is able to see the contents of a monitor even 3 walls away, which means he can see anything you see !

Football Update

So I've been quite busy in the last weeks but I'll try to give some more updates.

One week ago we had another game, in which again we won :)

I need to mention the captain's comments:

"I don't like naming individuals for praise as I thought it was a team effort but I thought Simon was phenomenol with his work rate and effort (well deserved MOTM), Omar was an absolute rock in defence (particularly one tackle which is one of the best last ditch challenges I've seen in a 1s or 2s game - you'll need to be good to cover up for gums ;) ) and finally Jack R was outstanding as a central midfielder, really good passing and movement."

We had another game today: 3-0 (for us). We're practically unbeaten so far. If you want to follow our league check it here:

http://www.cuafc.org/index.php?option=com_joomleague&func=showresultsrank&p=3&division=12&Itemid=95&r=3

Yes, I do other stuff besides football :)