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scott_s on May 6, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Honeywords: Making password-cracking detectable

It "hurts" in that it takes time. It's also not just math, but figures as well - diagrams and experimental results. There are automatic Latex-to-HTML programs, but their results are not pleasant. And I have difficulty putting up things that are ugly.

gijjk on May 7, 2013 [–]

a standard PDF is ugly to the 99% of readers who aren't going to print it out.

scott_s on May 7, 2013 | [–]

That doesn't hold for the people who would read my papers - other researchers. We read pdfs on our screens all the time.

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