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In 2005, my paper on breaking RSA by observing a single private-key operation from a different hyperthread sharing the same L1 cache -- literally the first publ
by cperciva 2y ago
In 2005, my paper on breaking RSA by observing a single private-key operation from a different hyperthread sharing the same L1 cache -- literally the first publication of a cryptographic attack exploiting shared caches -- was rejected from the cryptology preprint archive on the grounds that "it was about CPU architecture, not cryptography". Rejection from journals is like rejection from VCs -- it happens all the time and often not for any good reason.
(That paper has now been cited 971 times according to Google Scholar, despite never appearing in a journal.)
- davrosthedalek 2y agoIs it on the arxiv? If not, please put it there.
- ilya_m 2y agoThe paper is here: http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful/ http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful... As its author noted, the paper has done fine ciation- and impact-wise.
- cperciva 2y agoPaper is here: https://www.daemonology.net/papers/cachemissing.pdf https://www.daemonology.net/papers/cachemissing.pdf Your link is the website I put up for non-experts when I announced the issue.
- davrosthedalek 2y agoIn this case, it's less about discoverability, but more about long term archival. Will daemonology.net continue to exist forever? Arxiv.org might perish, but I am sure the community will make sure the data will be preserved.
- cperciva 2y agoI'm not too worried about that -- this paper is "mirrored" on hundreds of university websites since it's a common reference for graduate courses in computer security.
- ht_th 2y agoIn my experience, once teachers retire or move on, or a course gets mothballed, it's only a matter of time for course websites disappear or become non-functional. If the course website was even on the open web to begin with. If they're in some university content management system (CMS), chances are that access is limited to students and teachers of that university and the CMS gets "cleaned" regularly by removing old and "unused" content. Let alone what will happen when the CMS is replaced by another after a couple of years.
- pabs3 2y agoArchiveTeam is trying to save some of that stuff to archive.org, obviously it can't get the non-public stuff though. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/University_Web_Hosting https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/University_Web_Hostin...
- bigiain 2y agoI wonder if there's an Aaron Swartz of paywalled university course material out there? Someone (or a group) downloading, datahoarding, and sharing every collection of courses they can get that you need a university login to access?
- fl4tul4 2y agoThe journal lost, as it would have increased their h-index and reputation significantly.
- informal007 2y agoTime is always a better evaluater than anyone in any journal
- fliesskomma 2y ago[Add:controversity] Q: If 'Time is an 'always better' evaluater", why do i see nobody out there, writing about "compressed-time" ? regards...
- canadianfella 2y ago[dead]