Using pythonnet to interface CSharp library

August 15, 2018 blog code

Recently I encountered the issue of having to call some functions from an third-party library, which is available as .NET DLL only (is it called “assembly” in .NET jargon?). It doesn’t worth the effort to learn and write code in C# just to be able to use the library. So... [more]

Lamport et al (1982) The Byzantine Generals Problem

August 13, 2018 paper

About fault tolerance in a distributed system. Using the metaphor of a number of Byzantine generals have to come to a consensus of action, while the communication may not be accurate. For example, the sender of a message may be a traitor such that the message may be different to... [more]

Encrypting a file with OpenSSL

August 7, 2018 blog system

A natural question from using SSH for a while is whether we can reuse the SSH authentication key for other use, say, encrypting a file. The answer is affirmative in OpenSSL but it is not straightforward. [more]