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Actually, the linked paper discusses 112-115us of total read latency for NVMe SSD, not 14-15 (see Figure 5). 90us of raw device latency, then software overhead of 22-25us (2-3us dr…

Matt Blaze developed a very cool attack against master-key lock systems: http://www.crypto.com/papers/mk.pdf It requires access to one (non-master) key as well as a lock which is o…

It would be interesting to see the client/benchmarking program. It almost sounds like it could be single-threaded ... which would mean the delay is an artifact of the benchmark onl…

Interesting fact about liquid nitrogen (that I learned from Dave Arnold's book, which is fantastic): liquid nitrogen is ~700x denser than gaseous nitrogen. So, if you vaporize a mo…

I was looking at this earlier, there's an API too that seems pretty simple to use: ----- (1) Developer key: http://datamine.mta.info/user/register (2) The data is in Protocol Buffe…