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Pandu the game1/6/2024 Pandu Rangan: On the Optimal Communication Complexity of Multiphase Protocols for Perfect Communication. Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2004, 24th Annual International Cryptolog圜onference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 15–19 August 2004: Pages 545-561 Pandu Rangan: Optimal Perfectly Secure Message Transmission. Advances in Cryptology - ASIACRYPT 2002, 8th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Queenstown, New Zealand, 1–5 December 2002: Pages 224-242 Pandu Rangan: Asynchronous Secure Communication Tolerating Mixed Adversaries. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, (2005-2008).Member, Editorial Board, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS Series), Springer-Verlag, Germany, (2005-2008).Member, Board of Directors, Society for Electronics Transaction and Security (SETS), (2005-2007).Member of the Board of Directors of International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), (2002-2005).Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering, (2006).In 2018, he won Institute Chair Professor at IIT Madras.In cryptology his current focus is on secure message transmission and provable security of cryptographic protocols / primitives. ![]() Problems of practical interest in graph theory, combinatorics and computational geometry were his main interests in research. Pandu Rangan has published over two hundred research papers in the following areas of computer science and engineering: He completed his PhD from IISc, Bangalore in 1984. After obtaining B.Sc, he received his M.Sc. Well, both sets worked well, but we all felt that Sepoy might have led to a pretty one-sided battle, but it was probably a better representation of an Indian Mutiny engagement.Pandu Rangan was born on Septemto S.R. In the end the rump end of the Mutineer army was still holding on, but the British were securely in control of the bridge, and the next few miles of the road to Cawnpore lay open… In our previous Mutiny game we’d used I n the Heart of India, our own version of Chris Peers’ Heart of Africa rules. In fact the mutineers never really stood much of a chance, but the fun lay in trying to stop the British achieving their goal – clearing the Mutineer army from the table. Dougie and I played the mutinous defenders. The plucky British players (see the picture above of Bill and Colin) advanced on the bridge where the Grand Trunk Road spanned an otherwise impassable river, driving off the Mutineer engineers and herding the defenders off the board. Roll a “1” and your army just sits passively and awaits its fate! It allows small British units to seize the initiative and achieve deeds of derring-do – which is exactly what happened in the real thing. ![]() For instance, the number of six-figure bases the Mutineers can command each turn is decided by rolling a die. They’re based on the reliable File Leader English Civil War set, but they have a lot of their own mutinous quirks. Its been a while since we played an Indian Mutiny game, and this return to the sub-continent was inspired by the discovery of a set of rules – Sepoy, by Graham Evans, sold by Caliver Books. Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, Sepoy, 28mm The Battle of Pandu Nadi, 1857 20th May 2007, Comments Off ![]()
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