Installing RabbitMQ on MacOS

1. Download RabbitMQ for Mac here
2. Download Java AMQP client library here
3. Start RabbitMQ server by running ./rabbitmq-server
4. Check that the server is running properly with ./rabbitmqctl status
5. Compile and run a HelloWorld testing program from the tutorial here. Compile the Send.java and Recv.java files with javac -cp rabbitmq-client.jar Send.java Recv.java. Run Send.java with java -cp .:commons-io-1.2.jar:commons-cli-1.1.jar:rabbitmq-client.jar Send. This will send the message (in this case the message is “Hello World!”) to the queue. And then run Recv.java with java -cp .:commons-io-1.2.jar:commons-cli-1.1.jar:rabbitmq-client.jar Recv to pop out the message on the queue.
6. The server and the queues can also be checked via browser http://localhost:15672/

Now the queue is ready.

Back to VHDL

One of our papers is invited to an international journal, so in order to add new content of at least 30% to the conference version (further analysis, additional simulation/experimental results, detailed design/synthesis, further comparison with other related methods, a more elaborated discussion), we decided to do more exploration and experiments on composite field implementation with VHDL.

And I have to read this.

Reading list

Weekend Read

Hardware Implementation of Finite-Field Arithmetic – Jean Pierre Deschamps, Jose Luis Imana, Gustavo D. Sutter, Chapter 7.

Going to learn about all multiplier for finite fields. And think how can a non-finite field multiplier be applied for finite field applications.

Now reading:

VHDL Made Easy! David Pellerin – Douglas Taylor, Prentice Hall, 1997.

Reading list: Digital Design

Which one to read first?

Newcomers to the bookshelf :)

Forgot to post an update about me shopping some books, really cool ones 🙂

1. The “bible” of ECC: “Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography” – Darrel Hankerson, Alfred Menezes, Scott Vanstone

2. A very detail and theoritical book about elliptic curves: “Elliptic Curves – Number Theory and Cryptography” – Lawrence C. Washington

3. The most related book to be the reference of my phd thesis: “Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Constrained Devices – Algorithms, Architectures and Practical Implementations” – Sandeep S. Kumar

Happy holiday, everybody.

I’m going to spend the holiday with my new buddies 😉

Big numbers for crypto

My informal advisor/supervisor recommend me this amazing book. It really gives me a big hope that there are so many things to explore in software implementation 😀

Scientific Integrity – Feynman

Finally managed to finish this book. More about it here and here.

Fermat's Last Theorem

Some of my favorites book arrived today. One of the is this book

But the funny thing is, it has different cover with those I found on the web:

Is it because they’re from different publishers, or there are different versions, I will find out 😉

Ready to enjoy the book… (the piles is getting higher, adding more distractions for me, hi hi hi…)