Presentation is accomplished! With that stress now out of the way I can focus much more on the task of building the research paper. The first draft is due in a few days, and I have already made an outline of all the areas I need to cover and am in the process if filling in detailed information.
Reflecting on the presentation, it actually didn't feel too bad once I got in the swing of things and I did feel prepared to present and have a discussion with the audience. There were a few topics that I forgot to mention that I had planned on (just lost in the moment), but it still seemed to go on for a significant duration. I enjoyed the questions that the audience had the most, I loved answering their questions and hearing their thoughts. Their feedback makes me confident that my paper will be covering all the necessary features, although I intend to delve into some of the areas that I sort of skimmed over in the presentation (specifically the trade-offs of hashing costs, password complexity and memorabilia, and limited login attempts).
I will also include a mention of why hash salts are traditionally stored with the hash, a popular question that I think needs a strong answer to. In the presentation I said that the purpose of the salt was to make rainbow-table attacks impossible, and this is true, but the second feature that I forgot to mention is that they also make identical passwords hash to different hashes.
I think my biggest issue this week is just finding time to work on my research paper. I waited on writing most of the paper until my presentation was done so I could take the feedback and help polish the writing, something I think will improve the final result. I will finish the paper on time for the peer review process, it will just take a few late nights here and there. My sources and ideas are sorted out and available, I just need to write.
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