In FSE 2014, an authenticated encryption mode COBRA [4], based on pseudorandom permutation (PRP) blockcipher, and POET [3], based on Almost XOR-Universal (AXU) hash and strong pseudorandom permutation (SPRP), were proposed. Few weeks later, COBRA mode and a simple variant of the original proposal of POET (due to a forging attack [13] on the original proposal) with AES as an underlying blockciph...

ferdowsi was an outstanding orator, a messenger of freedom, not one with a sense and spirit to please the rulers of the time, nor a poet laureate composing his poems upon orders of rulers', neither affiliated to any court. this national poet was the creator of the central and basic locus of stories, as well as the founder of national palace of poetic language and philosophic rhetoric. what...

The Iranian, or Persian, calendar is solar, with the particularity that the year is defined by two successive, apparent passages of the Sun through the vernal (spring) equinox. It is based on precise astronomical observations, and moreover uses a sophisticated intercalation system, which makes it more accurate than its younger European counterpart, the Gregorian calendar. It is currently used i...

The poetry that emerges from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) develops a poetic discourse, to motivate its readers become active historical agents and witnesses, politically support Republican cause. In España: Poema en cuatro angustias y una esperanza (Spain: Poem in Four Anguishes One Hope) Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989) defends poetics of solidarity with Spain, while also acknowledg...

shahanshāhnāma is one of the historical epic poems composed by ahmad tabrizi at the end of the ilkhanids’ reign. at the time, the poet was not able to openly criticize the mongols. at times, one may even think that he is praising them. on the contrary, in the hidden layers of his composition, the poet tries to show his criticism by using rhetorical and linguistic tools and praising iran and ira...

If the goal of eliciting accurate user preferences over a com­ plex value space is to be realized, the elicitation process must be through while at the same time not overly burdensome to the user. An ideal preference elicitation tool would max­ imize the information about preferences acquired from the user while minimizing the number of queries required. To this end, we present POET: the Online...