Mildly interesting stuff I screenshot

Sometimes I read something interesting, and so I take a screenshot of it. And I know some people glance at this blog hoping to read a short piece that will provide some good knowledge. So here you go.

Taken from a Dan Bernstein’s blogpost:

some history on curves

some constant-time shenanigans

The following is taken from the wikipedia’s page on cryptanalysis

some more:

and some more:

And now some history about how the word Entropy was “coined” by Shannon. Taken from Tobin - Entropy, Information, Landauer’s limit and Moore’s law