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justasithlord
6y

A few weeks ago at infosec lab in college

Me: so I wrote the RSA code but it's in python I hope that's ok (prof usually gets butthurt if he feels students know something more than him)

Prof: yeah, that's fine. Is it working?

Me: yeah, *shows him the code and then runs it* here

Prof: why is it generating such big ciphertext?

Me: because I'm using big prime numbers...?

Prof: why are you using big prime numbers? I asked you to use 11, 13 or 17

Me: but that's when we're solving and calculating this manually, over here we can supply proper prime numbers...

Prof: no this is not good, it shouldn't create such big ciphertext

Me: *what in the shitting hell?* Ok....but the plaintext is also kinda big (plaintext:"this is a msg")

Prof: still, ciphertext shows more characters!

Me: *yeah no fucking shit, this isn't some mono/poly-alphabetic algorithm* ok...but I do not control the length of the ciphertext...? I only supply the prime numbers and this is what it gives me...? Also the code is working fine, i don't think there's any issue with the code but you can check it if there are any logic errors...

Prof: *stares at the screen like it just smacked his mom's ass* fine

Me: *FML*

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  • 13
    6y
    "smacked his mom's ass" 😂😂
  • 9
    6y
    He sounds pointless.
  • 12
    6y
    @Root this guy used to take our wireless networks lectures and provides us with ppts consisting over 100 slides which obviously makes no damn sense neither did his explanations. It was a proper presentation to death sort of stuff

    Hopefully we won't have him since we complained for 2 consecutive semesters....
  • 1
    6y
    @RememberMe Sounds familiar?
  • 0
    6y
    @kxspxr I didn't take much bigger prime numbers, both were around 100 only....
  • 2
    6y
    @kxspxr that's true, but only if management would listen to students. We're just taken as stupid kids with egos because "we think we know more than professors"... :|
  • 0
    6y
    I don't think these kind of faculties really care about providing a proper education/teaching, it's just a source of income for them
  • 0
    6y
    @exceptionalGuy looool
  • 0
    6y
    @RememberMe something similar happened with you?
  • 2
    6y
    @justasithlord oh yes, I had a veeeery similar infosec prof. I feel your pain.

    This one was even worse though. One guy implemented Twofish for his project, she accused him of hardcoding values. To be specific, hardcoding the values "1, 2, 3..." i.e the line numbers Sublime Text was displaying xD
    Yeah, she didn't know that line numbers are a thing.

    You can imagine how she was with stuff like encryption/decryption :p
    She said that my project was inflating the ciphertext too, and my algorithm was based on large primes as well. Said it "decreases efficiency".

    And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
  • 1
    6y
    @RememberMe oh dear lord....you have my condolences. It's just so hard to deal with such people, completely oblivious of the field they're teaching about!
  • 1
    6y
    @Condor I wish that quote wasn't so applicable. It's really sad.

    Teaching is a beautiful and important profession which takes a lot of skill, guts, and brains to do properly. A good teacher is one of the best things that can happen to you. A bad teacher is one of the worst. I wish these people would try to understand just how vital their job is.

    If I decide to continue my studies I'll probably go towards teaching.
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