Wed­nes­day morn­ing. No clouds. It’s warm out­side. I decide to read up on some papers accep­ted at work­shops and meet­ings. They’re deal­ing with cryp­to­graphy. Cryp­to­graphy is cool by the way.

Then, out of the blue there appears a paper. It’s title reads very sim­ilar to the one I’ve writ­ten. I click on it, store it, and I read it. Even the con­tent is very sim­ilar. The work­shop and the meet­ing on which the paper was accep­ted took place about two months ago. Hmmm… shit :)

It’s not funny when you real­ize that some­body else had a sim­ilar idea only two months ago. I even had a job inter­view at this depart­ment back in autumn last year. That’s funny. Maybe they’re inter­ested in a cooper­a­tion? I’m a bit more inter­ested in net­work com­mu­nic­a­tion, group com­mu­nic­a­tion, in unreali­able envir­on­ments, in adapt­a­tion in com­mu­nic­a­tion scen­arios. And of course: secur­ity (thus con­fid­en­ti­al­ity, integ­rity, avail­ab­il­ity) in there.

Hhmmmm. I feel a bit strange — just as I did the last days. Let’s see what’s com­ing next. On thursday next week (15. Sept. 2005) I give a short talk at the Kryptotag in Darm­stadt. It’s about my pro­ject. Hhmmmm.