Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today

Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today by cperciva on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @05:34PM (#42569873)

In 2005, my paper on breaking RSA by observing a single private-key operation from a different hyperthread sharing the same L1 cache -- literally the first publication of a cryptographic attack exploiting shared caches -- was rejected from the cryptology preprint archive on the grounds that "it was about CPU architecture, not cryptography". Rejection from journals is like rejection from VCs -- it happens all the time and often not for any good reason.

(That paper has now been cited 971 times according to Google Scholar, despite never appearing in a journal.)

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Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today by davrosthedalek on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @05:55PM (#42569995)

Is it on the arxiv? If not, please put it there.

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Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today by ilya_m on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @06:41PM (#42570237)

The paper is here: http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful...

As its author noted, the paper has done fine ciation- and impact-wise.

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Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today by cperciva on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @06:47PM (#42570276)

Paper is here: https://www.daemonology.net/papers/cachemissing.pdf

Your link is the website I put up for non-experts when I announced the issue.

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Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today by davrosthedalek on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @07:39PM (#42570563)

In this case, it's less about discoverability, but more about long term archival. Will daemonology.net continue to exist forever? Arxiv.org might perish, but I am sure the community will make sure the data will be preserved.

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Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today by cperciva on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @08:20PM (#42570781)

I'm not too worried about that -- this paper is "mirrored" on hundreds of university websites since it's a common reference for graduate courses in computer security.

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Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today by ht_th on Thursday January 02, 2025 @12:32AM (#42571954)

In my experience, once teachers retire or move on, or a course gets mothballed, it's only a matter of time for course websites disappear or become non-functional.

If the course website was even on the open web to begin with. If they're in some university content management system (CMS), chances are that access is limited to students and teachers of that university and the CMS gets "cleaned" regularly by removing old and "unused" content. Let alone what will happen when the CMS is replaced by another after a couple of years.

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Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today by pabs3 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @09:27AM (#42574684)

ArchiveTeam is trying to save some of that stuff to archive.org, obviously it can't get the non-public stuff though.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/University_Web_Hostin...

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Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today by bigiain on Thursday January 02, 2025 @09:45PM (#42581727)

I wonder if there's an Aaron Swartz of paywalled university course material out there? Someone (or a group) downloading, datahoarding, and sharing every collection of courses they can get that you need a university login to access?

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Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today by fl4tul4 on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @11:11PM (#42571565)

The journal lost, as it would have increased their h-index and reputation significantly.

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Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today by informal007 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @08:20AM (#42574159)

Time is always a better evaluater than anyone in any journal

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Re:Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today by fliesskomma on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:57PM (#42578136)

[Add:controversity] Q: If 'Time is an 'always better' evaluater", why do i see nobody out there, writing about "compressed-time" ?

regards...

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