There are just some days you see how brilliant people are compared to you. And the worst (best?) part was I felt smart before I read this. I even felt smart while reading it (caught the cipher block chaining mistake in the code before the explanation).

Then they have to get to bit flipping and BLEW MY MIND. My seemingly small and primitive mind that consumes Kahn's books for the historic and not mathematical joy. This reminds me how I was in Chicago on a panel once with Thomas, Dave Aitel, and Alex Sotirov. I remember being about to hop on stage and thinking (as I'm sure they were) "So who got sick and dropped out?"

blah blah blah DOM tree blah blah blah document.referer blah blah blah XSS blah blah blah charlatans, punch in the face