User:Pngdeity/sandbox

Useful tools

• WP:PETSCAN -> Useful for finding intersections and unions of categories
• Copy and paste:
  There's a rough notecard system here with the sources sorted by date and the facts from the articles beneath the source title, just an FYI for the curious.

Userbox related

• "Access to UIUC library userbox" -> Something like "This user has access the <parameter> library system, including and especially the lovely Grainger Engineering Library, even though that's really not its full or colloquial name.
• Check out this userbox for an example of switching logic in a userbox.

Possible articles to do

Possible articles

Date added	Article subject	Notes
31 August 2023	George Means Bevier	The namesake of the Engineering library at UPitt
18 October 2023	Xposed framework	Useful on Android
18 October 2023	Grounding ear	See AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Earthing_(grounding) and mentioned in Milwaukee Electric Tool Bulletin #58-12-2653
31 October 2023	Giant Oak Search Database or GOST	Hilarious application of AI-powered wrong-think detection link
31 October 2023	Parsl, a parallelization Python library	https://parsl-project.org/publications.html
3 November 2023	HPE/Cray's Slingshot, Atos's BXI, Fujitsu's Tofu D	All HPC interconnects, and good counters to the Infiniband article
18 November 2023	Jack Stephan	the Cal Worthington of plumbing
18 November 2023	Looksmaxxing	thank you NYT Style section
27 November 2023	Wired Manual of Style (1996)	Wired Magazine’s 1996 Style Guide for Writing in the Digital Age Is an Artifact in Amber
2 December 2023	Habsora or "the Gospel"	An AI-powered & IDF-run military targeting system
6 January 2024	Joseph W. Royer House and Ella Danely Cottage	A historic district in Urbana
28 January 2024	CSX-l Computer	A historic microcomputer at the University of Illinois
28 January 2024	Ubiquitous technical surveillance	"a pervasive concern at the CIA"
30 January 2024	Full DIMM heat-spreader	Revealed to me in a dream (on a Hynix memory module datasheet)
2 February 2024	Citation File Format and CodeMeta	The former natively supported in GitHub, and the latter has linked-data capabilities
9 February 2024	Young Progressives of America	A seemingly defunct mid 20th century student organization for George Wallace?
25 April 2024	Wagon Wheel Restaurant	A Silicon Valley staple, closed in 1999, mentioned also in Nerds 2.0.1
5 May 2024	Flame graph	Useful for performance monitoring, as explained in Communications of the ACM
13 May 2024	Mammoni	#JustItalyThings
19 May 2024	Any of Gear puller, Bearing puller, Jaw puller, or Puller (tool)	Too many product listings to even enumerate one US Army manual
29 May 2024	The Great American People Show	The state theater company of the state of Illinois, as detailed by the U of I Library

Post-alien cryptography?

I am pleased to announce that FC1 symmetric key cipher has been made public.

FC1 is a groundbreaking, non-deterministic algorithm, infinitely stronger than AES standard. It can quickly handle keys of millions or billions of bits, providing an incredible grade of confidentiality. It is based on the uniqueness of the modular multiplicative inverse of a positive integer a modulo n and on its computability in a polynomial time.

aa' ≡ 1 mod n

The plaintext is a, the ciphertext a', modulo n is the secret key. This is the basic concept of FC1. Simple and devastating.

FC1 full specification is available on IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research), paper title "FC1: A Powerful, Non-Deterministic, Symmetric Key Cipher" https://www.iacr.org/news/item/18288

The algorithm was also published at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) website under the title: "FC1 Algorithm Ushers In The Era Of Post-Alien Cryptography" https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fabbrini-algorithm-post-alien-cryptography/

I also released the full code in Julia Programming Language: https://github.com/FabbriniCiphers

Hackers are harvesting large quantites of encrypyted data with the aim of keeping them for the day when the development of quantum computers will make it possible to decrypt them. With FC1 you can be sure that no one will ever be able to decrypt your most valuable data in the near or distant future.

FC1 can be considered the first ever designed to face the challenges posed by contact with an alien civilization. It ushers in the era of Post-Alien Cryptography (neologism, see https://postaliencryptography.org).

For feedback, exchange of views or implementation suggestions, I welcome your email at: fc1@fabbrini.org

— Michele Fabbrini, An email (2022)

Piper

It's the internally developed version control system used by Google for their M O N O R E P O. first seen here and mentioned here

Howard Frank the Network Scientist

https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/howard-frank

WP:BIOGRAPHY has a template even!

Dealers of Lighting

https://www.dau.edu/library/professional-reading-program/blog/Dealers-of-Lightning--Xerox-PARC-and-the-Dawn-of-the-Computer-Age

Open Information Security Foundation

Creators of Suricrata

Bicep (programming language)

A domain specific language for programmatic infrastructure as code for Microsoft Azure

Bicep - Microsoft Learn

Digital optical monitoring

Relevant for monitoring Small_Form-factor_Pluggable modules Also consider Digital Diagnostic Monitoring

International Association for Testing Materials

An organization related to the ASTM International

Privilege Elevation and Delegation Management

Very Linux

Switch Abstraction Interface

The new standard for white box switches.

MR-IOV

Multi root input output virtualization
Also, clean up the SR-IOV article with info from the x86 Virtualization article.

CARTA

Or, Continuous Adaptive Risk and Trust Assessment, something Gartner created ten years ago

Zero touch provisioning

Or, is it zero-touch provisioning? hmmmmm

interconnection oriented architecture

As mentioned on Dell's support site, might be something general

1EdTech

Formerly IMS Global Learning and associated with the Open Knowledge Institute

MSAB

A Swedish company specializing in phone forensics. Similar in vein to Cellebrite

OCP Accelerator Module

A hardware specification by the Open Compute Project

Software collapse

one source, but check the references on this too

Zanzibar

Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System

KeyDB

Snap Inc.'s alternative to Redis, which is also multithreaded.

Pingora (software)

Cloudflare's in-house replacement for NGINX that isn't quite yet open source

Hardware noise

Unrelated to cryptographic noise, but coming to a Linux kernel near you (if you run 6.3 and above)

Nellie

the most important individual buried on the UIUC campus, and also a cow.

Ziad Ahmed

A legend, and also living

ARPANET Network Terminal System (ANTS)

Used by the University of Illinois Center for Advanced Computation on their PDP-11.

Somewhat related but also consider expanding the Trusted ILLIAC subsection archive of site with more sources

CERN Virtual Machine File System

A parallel file system used by the Canadians

Sabrent

A manufacturer of computer accessories

1792 Exchange

An anti-ESG organization. Source

LetMeSpy

A defunct stalkerware company, or their flagship product