Cryptography for e-security (crypto-v3) May 2013- July 2013

Cryptography Course (crypto-v3)- website ::

http://www.freewebs.com/profpartha/cryptoKUv3.htm

Class #	Date	Highlights
05, 06	2013-05-24	Asymm. Key Cryptography. Intro: AKC, PKI, PKC, X509. Viginere Cipher, Feistel cipher, Pigpen cipher. Stream cipher vs block cipher. Encryption, signing. Videos: DH key exchange, suitcase analogy.
04	2013-05-23	Symm. Key Cryptography. Demo using zip, vi. Videos -- Ron Rivest, Bruce Schneier. Distributed copies of course DVD
03	2013-05-19	CE students (56) join the class. Cryptography fundamental principles.
02	2013-05-16	E-security overview. Threats, remedies.
01	2013-05-15	CS students = 19. Take-off lecture. Course overview.

59/2012 The birthday of Jesus Christ

I found the answer, at least an authoritative source, for the question I asked about a year ago ::
http://partha-the-prof.blogspot.com/2012/01/32012-when-was-jesus-christ-born.html
You can take a look at ::
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/new-testament/how-december-25-became-christmas/
and learn more about my enigmatic question.
Merry Christmas to all of you !
partha

58/2012 The hills are calling again

My next course on cryptography, at Kathmandu University, is announced. See : http://www.freewebs.com/profpartha/cryptoKUv2.htm.

partha

57/2012 Greedy and unethical

Greedy and Unethical

You want to buy a suitcase for carrying your stuff in your next voyage. You buy the suitcase, but find that the vendor/maunfacturer has put in some garbage already in the box. The stuff you find there is of no use to you, and it also robs you of the space you need for your own stuff. This is exactly what Seagate does, when you buy a portable external hard disk for your backups.

You are a diehard freedom lover, and cannot tolerate anything from the Micro???? junk pile. You find the whole disk formatted to an obsolete and unpopular format NTFS. The disk contains Micro???? executables which you do not need. You do not appreciate this disgusting and irritating experience. You do not appreciate unwanted things being stuffed on to you. By forcing itself on you, Micro???? is only making a laughing stock of itself. Linux users like me can get rid of Micro???? rubbish. This is what you can do (click for details), to give Micro???? what it deserves.

56/2012 Mere bharatiya log mahaan

I quote below, a recent mail I got from Dr. Bhola Thapa, Dean of Engineering. Kath. University. The Dean, is in charge of ALL engineering studies (all branches), in this University. He is also a famous Professor of Mechanical engineering.
I am not proud of this compliment I got. I am ashamed and sad. Why is it that, in all these years, I have not got a single word of appreciation from anyone in India ? Why is it the world over, Germany, China, France, Nepal, UK....etc., people think good about me ? Back home, I am a fit-for-nothing riff-raff. So be it.
Mera bharat mahaaan, Mere bharatiya log mahaan
partha
---------- Forwarded message Start ---------- From: Bhola Thapa
Date: 31 July 2012 20:05
Subject: FW: FOSS in Education -- Dr. Partha's lecture
To: "Prof. Partha"
Cc: ttl_ku@googlegroups.com, Manoj Shakya , Pankaj Dawadi
Dear Prof Parha
Thanks for excellent presentation today. I am circulating this to all my colleagues at Turbine Testing Lab. We have some Fluid Dynamics and fluid flow activities. We have been using license of Norwegian University. It will be nice to migrate to open source. Professionally it might not support for every thing, but for student projects, it will be good.
May I invite you to visit our TTL (if you have not visited) and make presentation to our team at TTL (we are 12 people). If you can focus your presentation of open sources on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Drawing, CAD, Finite Element Analysis etc, that will be great. Otherwise also your presentation is great.
Am I asking too much from you? If not, I request you to make one presentation to our Kath Univ High School A level students. I hope they will benefit to acquire knowledge and also they will decide how to choose their carrier path in future. I can arrange logistic. (If CSE dept wants to use this as the activity of the dept, they can facilitate).
Dear Biraj
Use the opportunity of presence of Prof Partha. He is really good professor.
Someone from the lab can do the survey or internet search for Open Sources relevant to TTL and complement Prof Partha’s Presentation.
Best regards
Bhola
*From:* Dr. Parthasarathy S [mailto:drpartha@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, July 31, 2012 2:26 PM
*To:* Manoj Kumar Gupta (Ast. P CSE); Manoj Shakya; drjdevkota@ku.edu.np; skharal@ku.edu.np; sushil@ku.edu.np; subash_ghimire@ku.edu.np; pdawadi@ku.edu.np; dpokharel@ku.edu.np; ukp@ku.edu.np; pannathapa@ku.edu.np; bhola@ku.edu.np
*Subject:* FOSS in Education -- Dr. Partha's lecture
Thank you for giving me time to explain FOSS and its possible contributions to educational institutions. I attach the presentation material (pdf format). Please use it in any way you like.
I hope there will be much more usage of FOSS in KU.
Please feel free to ask me, if you need any assistance in this matter.
Thank you once again,
partha
---------- Forwarded message End ----------

55/2012 Another legendary genius and his remarkable memory

Albert Einstein and his remarkable memory (or lack of it), are legendary.

There are a few far-fetched stories, like the one about him returning to his office and reading his own “GONE TO LUNCH. BE BACK IN 10 MINUTES” sign.

Or, how he lost his way one day, when going back home. He called up a taxi and told him-- "please take me to Albert Einstein's home" (knowing that all taxi drivers knew the house of a great scientist called Albert Einstein).

54/2012 The stuff that makes great mathematicians

Weiner was in fact very absent minded. The following story is told about him: When they moved from Cambridge to Newton his wife, knowing that he would be absolutely useless on the move, packed him off to MIT while she directed the move. Since she was certain that he would forget that they had moved and where they had moved to, she wrote down the new address on a piece of paper, and gave it to him. Naturally, in the course of the day, an insight occurred to him. He reached in his pocket, found a piece of paper on which he furiously scribbled some notes, thought it over, decided there was a fallacy in his idea, and threw the piece of paper away. At the end of the day he went home (to the old address in Cambridge, of course). When he got there he realized that they had moved, that he had no idea where they had moved to, and that the piece of paper with the address was long gone. Fortunately inspiration struck. There was a young girl on the street and he conceived the idea of asking her where he had moved to, saying, "Excuse me, perhaps you know me. I'm Norbert Weiner and we've just moved. Would you know where we've moved to?" To which the young girl replied, "Yes daddy, mommy thought you would forget."

About Norbert Wiener :: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener

53/2012 Ubunutu lovers will love this......

How to build an exactly similar ubuntu installation on another computer

(I have not yet tried this myself....partha)

Copied from :: http://www.shibuvarkala.com/2012/07/how-to-build-exactly-similar-ubuntu.html

Here is an easy way to build an exactly similar ubuntu installation on another computer. Run $ dpkg --get-selections >my_pakages on the machine that you want to clone. Install a clean copy of Ubuntu on the target machine. Copy the file my_packages to the target machine. Run the following command on the target machine. $ sudo dpkg --set-selections < ./package_names $ sudo apt-get -u dselect-upgrade Done.

52/2012 More bookshops to be discovered

Next time I visit Berlin, I hope I will, I have some more places to explore and discover. This includes some more bookshops .

51/2012 AI @ KU -- Course Chronicle

Each session = 90 minutes
Session #	Date	Events
??	10 Aug. 2012	Strike/disturbance in KTM. Sign off. Completed student evaluation report. Vacated office.
25	09 Aug. 2012	Evaluation of students. Personal interviews. Viva voce.
24	08 Aug. 2012	Fuzzy expert systems continued. Fuzzification-defuzzification examples. Defuzzification approaches. Wrap up. Limits of AI. LAST LECTURE
23	06 Aug. 2012	Fuzzy expert systems. Reasoning under uncertainty. Overview of logic -- binary logic, ternary logic, multiple valued logic, infinite valued logic, fuzzy logic. Fuzzy rule base. Fuzzification and defuzzification. Examples.
??	05 Aug. 2012	Strike/disturbance in KTM. NO class
??	03 Aug. 2012	KU Entrance exam. NO class
??	02 Aug. 2012	"Rakhi" -- holiday. NO class.
22	30 Jul. 2012	Student seminars. Rohit Amatya "Instant insanity". Chandan Gupta "Prolog features and examples".
21	27 Jul. 2012	Student seminars cancelled. Review. General discussions.
20	25 Jul. 2012	Robotics and AI overview.
19	23 Jul. 2012	Expert systems
18	20 Jul. 2012	Seminar on Prolog (Chandan Gupta). Seminar on Simulated annealing (Rohit Man Amatya). Discussions.
17	18 Jul. 2012	AI technologies. Overview of : Expert sytems, ANN, Fuzzy logic driven systems, Image processing systems, Banking systems, Intelligent programs, implantable medical devices, intelligent buildings.
16	16 Jul. 2012	AI programming. Desirable features. Panorama of languages. Overview of Prolog. Lambda calculus. Overview of LISP. SHRDLU.
15	13 Jul. 2012	Seminar on "Semantic graphs" by Sushil Shreshta. Seminar by Rohit Man Amatya on "Non- monotonic reasoning". Discussions.
14	11 Jul. 2012	AI in manufacturing.
13	09 Jul. 2012	AI in design. Concluding session.
12	06 Jul. 2012	Seminar/presentation by Chandan Pd Gupta : Genetic algorithms Discussions.
11a	?? Jul. 2012	AI in engineering. AI in design.
11	04 Jul. 2012	Extension of interval algebra. Events and durations. Episode analysis. Use of constraint logic programming. AI in engineering. AI in design.
10	02 Jul. 2012	Overview of temporal logic methodologies. LTL, LTA, interval algebrs, duration calculus, time Petri nets, hybrid Petri nets, Interval algebra s a semantic net. Use in temporal knowledge base creation. Checking inconsistencies. Post-mortem analysis. Glass oven example.
9	01 Jul. 2012	Seminar/presentation by Rohit Man Amatya : automated guided vehicles. Discussion on AGV.
8	27 Jun. 2012	Temporal knowledge and temporal reasoning. What is time ? Why should we bother about time ? Approaches to temporal knowledge : modal logic, LTL, quantified time, events and conditions, relative time, interval algebra.
7	25 Jun. 2012	Knowledge representation.Principles. Requirements. Precautions. Methods. Lists. Trees. Fault trees. Semantic nets. Rule based systems. Logic based. Relay ladders.
6	22 Jun. 2012	Seminar/presentation by Chandan GUPTA. Tabu search
5	20 Jun. 2012	AI problems, characteristics of AI problems, state space, state dependant problems, path dependent problems, search, informed vs uninformed search, heuristic search, depth first, breadth first, back tracking.
4	18 Jun. 2012	Issues in intelligence vs knowledge. Recognising human intelligence. Turing test. CAPTCHA. Learning. Objectives. End-results. Learning approaches :: supervised, assisted, Autonomous, unattended. Learning methodologies :: rote learning, Take advice, Learning by example / induction, Explanation based, Discovery, Analogy.
3	17 Jun. 2012	List of topics for seminar/projects. The nature of knowledge. Knowledge vs. intelligence. Knowledge vs. meta-knowledge. Why machines are not intelligent creatures.
2	13 Jun. 2012	Take-off lecture. Course modalities. NLP vs problem solving.
1	11 Jun. 2012	Course planning. Preparations.