Bob Jenkins' Web Site New: I'm having trouble identifying a bug I saw in my front yard. Help? My best guess is it's some kind of earwig, but the rear pincers are way smaller than any earwig I've ever seen. I'm thinking about entering the NIST cryptographic hash competition. I've got some studying and testing to do before I'm ready to submit anything.

Table of Contents (internal links):

Hashing

Here's a hash table, code for perfect hashing, a good hash function for hash table lookup, a FAQ, some theory, and code to search for new hash functions. I tried designing block ciphers and finding characteristics. I had an article published in Dr. Dobb's in September 1997.

Randomness

Have the cryptographic pseudorandom number generator ISAAC, a small noncryptographic pseudorandom number generator, a prize for breaking ISAAC, and ISAAC's background and theory. Also take some tests for randomness, and a table of orders of magnitude. Here are also some protocols and a unit vector generator.

Collections

See some skits from Boy Scouts, SQL tricks from Oracle, near-future speculations, some paper airplanes, some recipies, and some cartoons that I wrote in college.

Math

Look into pentagonal tiles, formulae for n-body orbit simulations, code for the HOMFLY knot polynomial, voting methods, choosing random passwords, jenny for pairwise testing, some error correction codes, a distributed HTML index, and a web page for choosing colors.

Physics

Consider perpetual motion machines, a dirigiped design, a scale model of the solar system, a page on exploring orbits with Java, Klemperer Rosettes, a simulation of Cruithne (a near-earth object), of figure-eight orbits, of binary star planetary orbits, a set of noncolliding orbits, some Dyson Swarms (pretty pictures!), some methods for the n-body problem, a description of the orbit applet used, and a tentative itzu world.

Home projects

See my half bath, a house design that will never be built, a dollhouse that did get built, some genealogical notes, and a roof rack for Justine's car.

Other

Here is my autobiography, a resume, a cong from the British Museum, a comparison of JPEG and JPEG 2000, a bit on software patents, my mom's art, and some early Bob photos. My wife Justine has a website too. Here are people I've encountered more than once.

• Search engines: Hum. Here's a chart of search engine market share.
• Usenet: Google groups lets you find people anywhere discussing any topic you are interested in.
• Stock quotes: Yahoo has personalized portfolios, and The Island handles after-hours trades.
• News: http://sciencedaily.com for science news, CNN for newspaper news, the BBC for a non-US perspective, or the Onion for spoofs of it all.
• Relative's pages: my wife Justine, my mom's online art gallery.
• Translate English to/from Spanish,French,German,Italian,Portuguese.
• Specific stuff: near-earth objects, astronomy journals, the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, genealogical research, and Rubik's Cube.

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