442-sentence Eurocrypt reviews.
554mm reasonable margins.
66A 25-year old policy on sexual harassment.
7- A 5-cycle speedup.
87A Facebook friend request from a cryptographer I~actually despise.
98A career-limiting card game.
109A dancing cryptographer.
1110A genuine attempt to configure IPsec.
1211A hand wavy argument.
13- A hardcoded nonce.
12+ A long-term nonce.
1413A non-fabricated use of pairings.
1514A painfully slow Tor masturbation session.
1615A popup Skype notification from ``lovemachine69'' during my keynote talk.
@@ -33,7 +32,6 @@ An overfull hbox.
3332An overlooked patent.
3433Arriving 13 minutes late to a 15 minute talk and having the gall to ask a question.
3534Asking for 2 room keys during check-in, knowing full well I'm not getting laid.
36- Bad attacker models.
3735Bart Preneel's \\ private key.
3836Beefing up my Proposition to a Theorem because I'm that awesome.
3937Being forced to attend social events because I'm the visitor's official host.
@@ -44,9 +42,7 @@ Brexit.
4442Checking my Google Scholar profile daily.
4543Chocolate-covered shrimp.
4644Citing personal communication.
47- Clipper chip v2.0.
4845Conferences with 5 submissions at 11:59pm.
49- Copying code from PDF files.
5046Crippling student debt.
5147Crypto wars.
5248Deadline day flatulence.
@@ -57,11 +53,9 @@ Doing Facebook maths puzzles to show I am better than those idiot 97\%.
5753Double ROT-13.
5854Drinking alone.
5955Dropping the word Blockchain into my research proposal as many times as possible.
60- DUAL\_EC.
61- E-voting.
56+ Dual\_EC\_DRBG.
6257Encrypted database security definitions.
6358Explaining what my job is at a family reunion.
64- Export restrictions.
6559Falling asleep in a 5-person meeting.
6660Feeling flattered because a conference spam email addressed me as Professor.
6761Fighting over LaTeX syntax.
@@ -76,7 +70,7 @@ Getting stuck at the French-speaking banquet table.
7670Getting tenure, then chilling the f--- right out!
7771Getting turned on by a proof.
7872Going straight to journal.
79- Government mandated backdoors.
73+ Government- mandated backdoors.
8074HTTPS everywhere!
8175Hands-on supervision.
8276Having to write a polite rebuttal to the reviewer who clearly didn't read past page 2.
@@ -108,7 +102,6 @@ My successful career at a patent troll company.
108102My supervisor's morning breath.
109103Nigel Smart's new Hawaiian shirt.
110104Overselling it hard in the introduction.
111- Padding oracles.
112105Password1.
113106Picturing the FSE audience naked.
114107Politely starting an answer with ``That's a good question...'', when the question is actually idiotic.
@@ -123,12 +116,10 @@ Putting an outdoors-y photo on my academic webpage to look well-rounded.
123116Quadruple XOR.
124117Quantum key distribution.
125118Quickly trying to peek at someone's badge as I shake their hand, but it's flipped backwards.
126- Randomness by dice roll.
127119Reading the person in front's emails.
128120Relatives who ask me to help them install their printer on Windows.
129121Rogaway's loose morals.
130122Satoshi Nakamoto.
131- Schoolbook RSA.
132123Security through obscurity.
133124Sending an email at 11pm so people think I work hard.
134125Serious rump session speakers.
@@ -150,7 +141,6 @@ The NSA's massive stack of amateur porn.
150141The North Korean Cryptographic Standard.
151142The awkward question the chair asks when nobody understood the talk.
152143The awkward silence of 8 people standing in a circle during the afternoon coffee break.
153- The CAESAR competition deadline.
154144The great firewall of China.
155145The great paywall of IEEE.
156146The intoxicating aroma of 12 PhD students in one office.
@@ -159,7 +149,6 @@ The one person I don't want to get stuck next to on the conference excursion bus
159149The one really hot person at CHES registration drinks.
160150The one suit I own for meetings with industry.
161151The person in the front row taking photos of every slide.
162- The pqc-forum mailing list.
163152The secret flash drive hidden in my underwear.
164153The student body.
165154The walking zombie corpse of Claude Shannon.
@@ -171,7 +160,6 @@ Turning up to one meeting and claiming co-authorship.
171160Tweeting about my paper acceptance.
172161Unbreakable military-grade encryption.
173162Undergrads.
174- Unnecessary Star Wars references.
175163Using Beamer because it's social suicide to use PowerPoint.
176164Using ``it clearly follows'' when the implied following is anything but clear.
177165Using ``we should talk about this offline'' because the question exposes holes in my paper.
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