A hybrid mutual authentication protocol for RFID

Out of the large number of RFID security protocols proposed in recent years none have proven to be truly secure and the creation of a truly secure security protocol for systems employing low cost RFID tags remains an open problem. In this paper we develop and present a RFID security protocol which not only allows mutual authentication and secure transmission of data between the reader and tag but is also secure against a number of common attacks.

Service discovery for service-oriented content adaptation

Service-Oriented Content Adaptation (SOCA) has emerged as a potential solution to the content-device mismatch problem. One of the key problems with the SOCA scheme is that a content adaptation task can potentially be performed by multiple services. In this paper, we propose an approach to the service discovery problem for SOCA and it is demonstrated to perform well.

In the name of the Father : God in Lacan, Judaic or Christian?

This essay challenges the widespread notion that Lacanian psychoanalysis represents a 'Christianing' of psychoanalysis. It argues that Lacanian psychoanalysis brings to psychoanalysis a broadly "Averroist" attitude towards religion which develops out of and transcends Freud's position in Totem and Taboo. For Lacan, religious texts are an invaluable source of pre-psychoanalytic insight or another regal road into the champ Freudien: the dynamic of human beings' desire, in its co-conformity with language and Law. The text focuses on trying to decipher the missing content of the Names of the Father seminar: the seminar that "does not exist" (Miller, 2006) beyond its opening, esoteric and dramatic session. The force of doing this will be to show how much, and how fundamental, the things are that Lacan thinks the bible, and the first Abrahamic monotheism in particular, can teach us about human subjectivity and the instance of the Law that shapes it - insights which go to explain Freud's unmistakable attachment, despite himself, to the civilizational importance of his fathers.

Programs to raise tertiary education aspiration, 2011-2012 data

Data is a collation of local and global programs that address tertiary education attainment. It is in the form of a Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet and is purely text.