{"id":362,"date":"2016-12-31T15:25:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T23:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2016-12-31T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T23:34:09","slug":"recap-2-end-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/31\/recap-2-end-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap #2: End of the Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the end of 2016 comes around, it's been roughly 9 months since I started this blog, and I thought it would be interesting to take a look at this year's academic \/ research endeavors.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>First off, I officially became a Computer Scientist, as I graduated from UCSB with Honors. A dream that I had been following for the last 16+ years finally came to it's conclusion as I walked up a stage and received that diploma. Let me also take a small chance to express my gratitude towards my family and friends who were the ones who fueled this success.<\/li>\n<li>On the blogging aspect of things, I managed to keep updating this blog at a decent rate of 2-3 post per month, which is fantastic! \ud83d\ude42 I managed to touch on some varied topics such as building <a href=\"http:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/10\/coding-chrome-extensions-quickly\/\">Chrome Extensions<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/capture-the-keys-chapter-2-pylogger\/\">Keylogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/21\/pentesting-101-setting-up-your-lab\/\">Pentesting<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/22\/physical-unclonable-functions\/\">PUFs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/24\/caesar-cipher-in-scala\/\">Scala<\/a>, etc. This was definitely fun, yet challenging to achieve since each write up takes quite a while to achieve since I always want to get things right and not simply repeat content that can be found elsewhere on the web.<\/li>\n<li>I released 4 papers:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/30\/calculating-nonlinearity-of-boolean-functions-with-walsh-hadamard-transform\/\">Calculating Nonlinearity of Boolean Functions with Walsh-Hadamard Transform<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/11\/survey-of-cryptographic-implementations-and-vulnerabilities-on-passive-rfid-devices\/\">Survey of Cryptographic Implementations and Vulnerabilities on Passive RFID Devices<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/twitter-sentiment-analysis-with-neural-networks\/\">Twitter Sentiment Analysis with Neural Networks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Soundcloud Spam Anlaysis <em>(Will be added soon)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>On a work related note, I motioned to and successfully released <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ncatlabs\/pydradis\">Pydradis<\/a> as Open Source. Pydradis is a python API wrapper for the Professional Pen-testing writeup tool, Dradis. It was fun to see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dradisfw\/status\/789043516517285888\">some people take note of it<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>I was able to attend the DEFCON and CHES conferences. I had always dreamed of going to the DEFCON conference, seeing as it is the biggest hacker convention on the US. CHES on the other hand was a welcomed surprise as it focused purely on Hardware Cryptography and I considered it a crash course into all things relating with Side-Channel Attacks. Plus, I got to meet the R in RSA \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>As part of my thesis program, I delved deeper in the world of Post Quantum Crypto as I study R-LWE KEX. What initially started as my professor asking me to write a funding proposal from a famed national lab, ended up in me focusing on the more fringe aspects of PQC for my thesis.<\/li>\n<li>This winter quarter, I dedicated my studies to the area of Machine Learning &amp; Neural Networks with 2 projects. While both consisted on using Neural Nets, one consisted on <a href=\"http:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/twitter-sentiment-analysis-with-neural-networks\/\">sentiment analysis<\/a>, while the other consisted in spam analysis.<\/li>\n<li>I released <a href=\"http:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/26\/duckhunting-stopping-automated-keystroke-injection-attacks\/\">Duckhunt<\/a>, a tool to help prevent automated keystroke injection attacks (e.g. RubberDuckies) and received some attention for it. I was happy to see it featured in a few news websites including <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2016\/10\/28\/duckhunting-stopping-rubber-ducky-attacks\/\">Hackaday<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>I also released an old project of mine <a href=\"http:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/capture-the-keys-chapter-2-pylogger\/\">Pylogger<\/a>\u00a0(a Python Keylogger), which also received some level of attention. In fact, it was the most popular article of my blog this year, with around 2k unique hits.<\/li>\n<li>A simple joke among friends, quickly became (within 12 hours) a <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/hidden-auto-incognito-fil\/ilankdeoodaclegebpfgkfnbciiaabeo\">Chrome Extension and Hidden: Auto-Incognito<\/a> was born.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall, the year has been pretty active, both academically, professionally, and personally. It has been a year of great changes, some which are still underway. It was definitely a year of <em>\"biting more than you can chew\"<\/em> and then chewing it regardless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As for this new year, it feels as though I am still on the verge of big changes, as I will transition from graduate school to the so called \"real world\" and full time work. I don't think anyone read this blog consistently, except me, but I still thoroughly enjoy writing on it, and hope to be as active as possible reporting on all the research and academic\/professional shenanigans I do! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Cheers and Happy New Year!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Konuko II<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the end of 2016 comes around, it's been roughly 9 months since I started&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/31\/recap-2-end-of-the-year\/\">Read the post<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recap #2: End of the Year!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18,17,82],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal","tag-meta","tag-personal","tag-recap","excerpt","zoom","full-without-featured","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konukoii.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}