My musings

So today I finally decided to shift my (inactive) blog from Wordpress to Github Pages, which seems to be more simple in creating and maintaining. [Read More]

I have created a repository that has an OPML file containing an assorted list of different blogs that are worth following. Majority of the blogs are related to Cryptography, CTF write-ups, Mathematics and a bit of Physics (Quantum computation, cryptography). Just import the OPML file to your favourite RSS reader... [Read More]

This post describes how to call Bitcoin information using simple Python scripts. The bitcoin client has a powerful API and RPC interface that can be easily called in practically any programming language one can think about. Python is common and easy to understand scripting language that is extremely useful for... [Read More]

1st April is the day on which no information can be easily taken as fact and is also the day where pranking or fooling anyone tends to bring laughter rather than angry stares. Yesterday, some of my friends were commenting how many people from different science streams have played elegant pranks on... [Read More]

Long time since last post; but the reasons as always being that I am busy trying to get in rhythm, learning to cook efficiently :P and so on.. Recently Australia had its first experiment with e-voting, which while good doesn't exactly fits the ideal description of what is expected from e-voting... [Read More]