On: Honeywords: Making password-cracking detectable

[0xbadcafebee]

I understand the need for proper formatting in academic papers, but it wouldn't hurt anyone to provide a text copy after the fact.

If someone needs a formula they can render the pdf. But a secondary text copy can be more easily indexed, searched and viewed on any kind of text-viewing device... it's just a million times more convenient.

[bluedino → 0xbadcafebee]

I understand what you are saying but it's a pretty safe bet on today's internet that a browser is capable of handling a PDF.

An online service such as http://www.extractpdf.com/ does a pretty good job of taking the PDF link and extracting the text.

[scott_s → 0xbadcafebee]

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 → scott_s]

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

[scott_s → gijjk]

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