International Standard Date and Time Notation is a brief introduction into the ISO 8601 standard. If you have never heard about this standard before, you definitely should read this text. There is also a description of International Standard Paper Sizes , i.e. formats like A4, which are used today everywhere outside North America. I wrote this text in the hope to convince folks in the U.S. to give up their strange paper formats, which only cause headaches all over the planet for users of word processors, laser printers, and copying machines. There is also a new text about metric font sizes .
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Effective Scientific Electronic Publishing contains a number of tips for preparing online papers, mostly intended for our local research group, but probably useful for others as well who want to generate nice PDF files with LaTeX. Analysis of the Nagravision Video Scrambling Method discusses methods of how to decode in realtime without a regular decoder box the pay-TV conditional access system used for instance by the German broadcaster Premiere . I proposed a new Time and Calendar API for the C Programming Language that provides much more robust leap-second and timezone handling. An English summary of this project appeared in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. My filtered Tempest fonts are a simple implementation example of a low-cost VDU eavesdropping prevention technique that we proposed in our Soft Tempest paper . There is also my Ada95 reference implementation of the Serpent encryption algorithm that was submitted by Anderson, Biham, and Knudsen to the AES contest .