Percy Reyes
My thoughts on cryptography and SQL database management
Sunday, 6 June 2021
Cryptology vs. Cryptography vs. Cryptanalysis. What's the Difference?
Monday, 26 April 2021
Curious About Cryptographic Boolean Functions?
Sunday, 25 April 2021
Exploring What a PhD Is Like
Some
weeks ago, it was my pleasure, and honour, to be invited to participate as a
panellist in the online event Explore What a PhD is Like organised by PhD Social Support Network from Loughborough
University. The event
aimed to give undergraduate and postgraduate students a summary of Doctoral
Researchers’ lives and an idea of what it’s like to do a PhD at Loughborough
University.
With so much confusing and contradictory information out there, it becomes a bit difficult to have a good understanding of many things before embarking on doing a PhD. So I decided to write down my answers for those of you who could not attend the event and are interested in doing a PhD. Because we were four panellists, I just answered some questions, but in this post, I share my answers to all questions, which mainly depend on my personal circumstances and experiences at Loughborough University — And I do hope to help clear some things up. In case that you have any other questions, please let me know in the comment section.
Friday, 12 March 2021
Cryptography is Everywhere
The huge desire for secrecy led nations, kings, and queens to make all-out efforts to ensure the security of communications by inventing the best possible secret codes and ciphers.
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A lover in Victorian times |
Friday, 5 March 2021
Do You Want to Be a Cryptographer?
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Alan Turing |
Thursday, 4 March 2021
Don't Place the Blame on SQL Server
No matter what technology we are working with, we are at the wheel — technology is just a tool — so it is not the best to blame technology on the ground of one's inefficiency.
Monday, 30 July 2018
Installing a stand-alone SQL Server 2017 instance step by step
Today's post is going to outline the process of installing a basic stand-alone SQL Server 2017 instance. This process is just a basic guideline and, surely, not a rule for each installation, because it is fully understood that every environment is different and needs a customised installation to meet very specific requirements. You can read the whole tip about it at mssqltips here https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/5616/steps-to-install-a-standalone-sql-server-2017-instance. I hope you find it very useful and practical. That's all for now. Please let me know any remarks you may have. Stay tuned!
Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Configuring Read-Only Routing and load-balancing across Read-Only replicas
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