So, I haven’t written in a while. That is because nothing very exciting has been happening in my life. Life goes on day by day, step by step.
Recently I have been working on getting a paper ready for publication. It is hard to guess how people will react to our paper. We are righting win the area of usable security. The problem we run into is that most security people refuse to think in terms of usability. They want perfectly secure systems, but the truth is that no one uses systems like that. None of us are perfect, and there will always be mistakes. We need to stop living in an imaginary world, and instead be practical. If there was only someway I could convince them of that.
The paper is going well though. I feel that it communicates our points well. I have also been working on my master’s thesis. It is really hard work. I am doing proofs of an authentication protocol. The hard thing with proofs are that they are hard to incrementally make progress. Until you can see how to proceed there is little you can do. I guess I will just keep shipping away at it.
Emily and I are also doing well. Over the last several weeks we have had a couple of date nights. A couple months back I sent her a package that had a bunch of videos. I also sent her stuff to do s’mores with. For our first movie night we watched Inception together. It was really fun. In the middle of the movie we stopped and made s’mores. It is great to be able to have dates even when we live so far apart.
We have also been watching Emma. It is always interesting to see how Victorian England lived life. I certainly enjoy the idiosyncrasies the characters have. It has been a lot of fun!
Still, it will be good to have her back in the USA. She has just one more month of her program left. It will still be a few more weeks after that until I see her, but it will be nice just knowing she is closer. It will also help us Skype a little easier. The internet in China is very flaky, and sometimes talking with each other is hard.
And that is how life has been. Overall, it is really good. I hope this update helps everyone keep up. I will try to write more. I will try and do interesting things so I have something to write about 
