The first talk of this session is reflection, quick analysis of brain-slide cypher. The authors are Adi Suleimani, Selin Glanda, Xiaoli Yun, Wenning Wu, Aisha Leibang, Hui Ling Zhang, Lei Zhang, and Yan Feng Wang. I think this is a joint paper, so we get a long list of authors here. Adi will be passed to the second Adi. Okay, hello everybody. I'm going to talk about reflection, quick analysis of brain-slide cypher. So this is the outline of the presentation. First, I will describe the brain-slide cypher. Then, I will introduce you to these three researches for this kind of cypher. And after that, I will explain how to acquire cure power, and also various classes of water reflection, and finally, I will talk about it. So, the print is a low latency black cypher. It was proposed at last Asia Cape. It's a fixed construction. The master key is divided into two parts. The first part is used as a whitening key in the beginning and end. And also, K1 is used in the core of the cypher. So, the last whitening key, K0 prime, is also obtained by K0 simply, in this way. And also, the cypher has an interesting property, which is called alpha reflection. It means that instead of using the encryption algorithm, we can use encryption algorithm by just swapping the whitening keys, K times 0 and K0, and also use K1, XOR, to alpha, instead of K1. And independently of the value of alpha, designers show that the print is secure against non-attacks, standard attacks, like differential, linear attack. And also, this work is to study the effect of value of alpha and the security of the prints like certain structure. So, at the first, before describing the cypher, because there is another expert about prints in the next talk, I should say that our description is a bit different from the original description. So, I'm going to talk about this. Anyway, in the middle of the cypher, there is a linear, there is an involution linear layer and also a nonlinear layer S, and inverse of S. Also, there are five more rounds at the beginning and also five more rounds at the end, and each round in the beginning is consist of K1, adding key, adding ground constant, and a nonlinear layer S, and another linear, the second linear layer, which is called M. M can be obtained from M prime simply, as we will describe. And actually, in the last round, each round is consist of similar elements, but in inverse, it means first we have inverse of M, inverse S, adding ground constant, adding key. And so, it's the core of the cypher, and as I mentioned before, so also for having alpha reflection property, the constants should have this property, which holds in this equation. And also, as I mentioned before, there are two more widening key at the beginning and at the end. So, the original piece has the length of the block, is 64, and the specific value of alpha is chosen this value, and the S layer, a nonlinear layer, is a linear wise, each linear is proceed by the same spot. And also in prime, the first linear layer is an inclusion matrix, 64 times 64 bits, and it's diagonal, and it can be constructed by two smaller matrices, M0 hat and M1 hat. The M0 hat and M1 hat are also constructed by four smaller matrices, M0, M1, M2, and M3. Finally, the second linear matrix M in the pins, in the original pins, can be obtained by a position of M prime and also a simple permutation SR, which behaves like a shift row in the areas. Now, first let's look at the progress works. Reflection attack is a kind of attack, and it has been applied on some primitives in black cyphers and hash points with first structure. The idea is that if in the middle of the cypher, if the left part of the state and is equal to the right one, then also assume that the subkey are equal, then without knowing the key, since the input of the functions are equal and also the functions are equal, then without knowing the key, we know that out of the function are equal. So, if you look at the two arms of the cypher in the middle, then we know that if probability, at the same probability, the input and output are equal. So, the difference between input and output is zero. And of course, if for more rounds, if symmetrically the subkeys are equal, then we can extend the distinguisher for more rounds of the sub. So, in this work, we use a probabilistic reflection, means we use probabilistic scenario to extend our distinguishes because in the primes, in the primes cypher, we have round constant which are related to each other, but they are not equal. So, we can't use a deterministic reflection distinguisher. And also, we try to do this for an SPN, SPN as well. To introduce the distinguisher, first we have this determination for function f from the set a to the same set and a point x, an element x, is called fixed point, if out without the function is equal to the input. And it can be proved that if function f be a linear resolution, then the number of fixed point is at least to the n over 2. And we use this fact. So, the idea is to take the advantage, the fact that there are at least to the n over 2 fixed point in the middle of the cypher and also use the alpha reflection property and construct the reflection distinguisher. So, let's look at the middle of the cypher. For the first, we introduce one distinguisher for two rounds of the middle of the cypher. With this probability, we have a fixed point here, the difference is zero. So, we can pass the nonlinear layer with the same probability. And finally, because of the relation between round concept, the difference between here and here is alpha with this probability. Similarly, we can introduce another distinguisher. So, with this probability, we have a difference alpha from here to here. And so, after the round concept, the difference is zero. So, we can pass one round. And finally, the difference between input and output of the forums of the cypher in the middle of the cypher with this probability is alpha. Now, to extend, but say we are far from the whole of the cypher. So, to extend the distinguisher, we should do. And also, in the case that there is another point, in the case that this probability is zero, there is still a kind of distinguisher. We have an impossible differential. It means that, namely, it's happened. This happens also for the original value of alpha in the prints. So, to extend our distinguisher, assume that for two or four rounds of the middle of the cypher, the difference between here and here is alpha. Now, if you look at the from inside to the input and inside to the output, the rounds function behave similarly to each other. There is only a difference here and here. And the round concepts are different, but they are still a relation between them and the difference between them and alpha. So, the idea is to look at this cypher and try to find for a specific value of alpha, try to find a differential related key characteristics for more rounds and extend this distinguisher for more rounds. Now, how we can do Kim Covey based on these distinguishers? Assume that with high probability this happens, it means that the difference between here and here for two or minus two or rounds of the cypher are delta. So, with the same probability, we can pass the linear layers. And as usual, the idea is to get corresponding keys in the first round and the last round and check whether the distinguisher holds or not. But still to speed up the key recovery, there are, we can do more, there are two ideas. The first one is doing the key recovery needle by needle. So, first we get the corresponding key case from here and also the last round and check whether for the specific needle the value of delta as well if holds or not. Also, in the case that, in the case that delta s star in the specific needle is zero, we can pass the non-linear layer and so the effect of k1, so k1 is cancelled and so it's not necessary to know the value of k1 in this specific needle. And so by this idea, we can also speed up the key recovery. Now based on the distinguisher and key recovery, which I explained before, we are trying to classify the alpha value. It means that if we if we choose a specific alpha, how this construction, how this, how choosing alpha affects the security of the cipher. So, to maximize, to maximize, let's look at again to the external characteristics, to maximize the external bounds, the probability of the distinguisher for the external rounds. We have two ideas. The first one is cancellation and also for a specific alpha, we can use branch and bond to find the best related key differential for more rounds. First cancellation idea, assume that for two or four rounds of the cipher in a different series alpha. So, with this probability after inverse of n and inverse of s, we have alpha. So, since the difference between round constant is alpha, so after key addition and round constant addition, the difference is zero. So, we can pass one more round and so after the key addition again we have alpha. So, it's an iterative, iterative characteristics for four rounds of the cipher. But of course, it's still, we can do more by, and yeah, so by cancellation idea, we have the iterative characteristics for four rounds. And the best alpha which we have found are listed here, in which we can attack the full round of the cipher. And also by branch and bound aggregate, a simple branch and bound aggregate for 12 rounds of the cipher. We can, for a specific alpha, we can find how many rounds we can attack. And some example of the full round of the cipher, the value of alpha is listed here. So, the observation is that if you look at this table and this table, most of the alpha value are low hanging weight. So, here, for example, we have 001.1. And so, the question is that would it be sufficient to choose the alpha value such that the most of the labels are active? Is it sufficient or not? So, for example, let's look at this alpha value. All of the labels are active, but the inverse of the alpha is, it has just four activities. So, for this kind of alpha, which is the inverse of alpha, has this format where SR means non-active, SR means arbitrary value. Then, we can show for six rounds of the cipher, we have this way, a truncated distinguisher, such that with probability 2 to the minus 32, the difference between the six rounds is this value. And also, there are three more classes, truncated characteristic, which are listed here. So, totally for 2 to the 18 values of alpha, there exist six rounds truncated characteristics with 2 to the minus 32 probability. And so, we can attack up to eight rounds of the cipher by using to the round 36 data complexity, and also to the 88-foot equation. And as a conclusion, so, we introduced generic distinguisher for piece-like ciphers. And we showed that the security of piece-like ciphers depends strongly on the value of alpha. And also, we identified classes, which were 4, 4, 6, 8, and 10 rounds of the cipher. We can distinguish the pre-score from the random ideal deviation. And in the case of the weakest class, we can attack 12 rounds of the cipher. But still, for the original value of alpha, the attack just worked for six rounds. So, we can conclude that the alpha value, which has been chosen by the designer, is among the best one. And so, we can conclude that this work can be considered as a new design criteria for selection or choosing of the value of opium ciphers. Thank you very much. Is there any question for Haru? No, I have a question. Besides, please, what ciphers did you consider? Well, actually, we have tried to apply this on more SPN-like ciphers, which are convolutional. And at least, they couldn't apply this for the ciphers, such that it works for all of the ciphers. Because maybe it works for some ciphers in the b-key's scenario. But because one of the points is that the round constant, you should find a good relation between round constant. So, you can, such that you can extend your characteristics for more rounds. And so, if for the non-block surface, which at least we tried, it was just to get this class. But in future, we should just try. Any more question? If you go to the net complex, it shows security margin that you can multiply data in the net complex. Yeah. Actually, our main idea is that the same, we are, it's just we wanted to show that we can apply the key recovery. I mean, distinguished can be converted to key recovery parts. But you are right. It's more than 127. But the point is that for specific alpha, we can distinguish more rounds of the core of the cipher. But the same, it's secure against linear attack, the single differential attack.  So, yeah, maybe for key recovery, it doesn't work well. But if you consider only print score, then everything is clear. Why? Because first, there is no real security margin on the print score. Yeah. But it's proved that it's secure against differential annealing. Okay? The attack complexity there, that you're right. Is it going to be smaller if you consider only print score? Of course. Because then if you don't need to, because one of the problems here is that the relation between K0 and K1 is not a direct reaction. So if you know K0, it doesn't mean that you have K1. Thank you. Any more questions? If not, let's thank Halia again.


From the SiliconANGLE Media Office in Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Now, here's your host, Dave Vellante. Welcome to this week's CUBE Insights, powered by ETR. Today is November 8th, 2019, and 2019. And I'd like to address one of the most important topics on the minds of a lot of executives. I'm talking about CEOs, CIOs, Chief Information Security Officers, boards of directors, governments, and virtually every business around the world. And that's the topic of cybersecurity. The state of cybersecurity has changed really dramatically over the last 10 years. I mean, as a cybersecurity observer, I've always been obsessed with Stuxnet, which the broader community discovered the same year that the CUBE started in 2010. It was that milestone that opened my eyes. Think about this. It's estimated that Stuxnet cost a million dollars to create, that's it. Compare that to an F-35 fighter jet. It cost about $85 to $100 million to build one. And that's on top of many billions of dollars in R&D. So Stuxnet, it hit me like a ton of bricks that the future of war was all about cyber, not about tanks. And the barriers to entry were very, very low. Here's my point. We've gone from an era where thwarting hacktivists was our biggest cyber challenge to one where we're now fighting nation states and highly skilled organized criminals. And of course, cyber crime and monetary theft is the number one objective behind most of these security breaches that we see in the press every day. It's estimated that by 2021, cyber crime is going to cost society $6 trillion in theft, lost productivity, recovery costs. I mean, that's just such a staggeringly large number. It's even hard to fathom. Now the other sea change is how organizations have had to respond to the bad guys. It used to be pretty simple. I got a castle and the queen is inside. We need to protect her. So what do we do? We built a moat, put it around the perimeter. Now think of the queen as data. Well, what's happened? The queen has cloned herself a zillion times. She's left the castle. She's gone up to the sky with the clouds. She's gone to the edge of the kingdom and beyond. She's also making visits to machines and the factories and hanging out with the commoners. She's totally exposed. Listen, by 2020, there's going to be hundreds of billions of IP addresses. These are going to be at endpoints and phones, TVs, cameras, tablets, automobiles, factory machines, and all of these represent opportunities for the bad guys to infiltrate. This explosion of endpoints that I'm talking about has created massive exposures and we're seeing it manifest itself in the form of phishing, malware, and of course the weaponization of social media. You know, if you think that 2016 was nuts, wait till you see how the 2020 presidential election plays out. And of course there's always the threat of ransomware. It's on everybody's minds these days. So I want to try to put some of this in context and share with you some insights that we've learned from the experts on theCUBE. And then let's drill into some of the ETR data and assess the state of security, the spending patterns. We're going to try to identify some of those companies with momentum and maybe some of those that are a little bit exposed. Let me start with the macro and the challenge faced by organization and that's complexity. Here's Robert Herchevek on theCUBE. Now you know him from the Shark Tank but he's also a security industry executive. Herchevek told me in 2017 at the Splunk.conf conference that he thought the industry was overly complex. Let's take a look and listen. I think that the industry continues to be extremely complicated. There's a lot of vendors, there's a lot of products. The average Fortune 500 company has 72 security products. There's a stat at RSA this year that there's 1500 new security startups every year, every single year. How are they going to survive? And which ones do you have to buy because they're critical and provide valuable insights and which ones are going to be around for a year or two and you're never going to hear about it again. So it's an extremely challenging, complex environment. So it's that complexity that has led people like Pat Gelsinger to say security is a do-over and that cybersecurity is broken.  Now many have sort of questioned and been skeptical about VMware's entrance into the space. But here's a clip that Pat Gelsinger shared with us on theCUBE this past VM world. Let's listen and we'll come back and talk about it. And this move in security, I am just passionate about this. And as I said to my team, if this is the last thing I do in my career is I want to change security. We're just not are satisfying our customers. They shouldn't put more stuff on our platforms. National defense issues, huge problems. It's just terrible. And I said, if it kills me, right, I'm going to get this done.  So this brings forth an interesting dynamic in the industry today. Specifically, Stephen Smith, the CISO of AWS at this year's reinforce, which is their security conference, Amazon's big cloud security conference, said that this narrative that security is broken, it's just not true, he said. It's destructive and it's counterproductive. His and AWS's perspective is that the state of cloud security is actually strong. Kind of reminded me of a heavily messaged state of the union address by the president of the United States. At the same time, in many ways, AWS is doing security over. It's coming at it from the standpoint of a clean slate called cloud and infrastructure as a service. Here's my take. The state of security in this union is not good. Every year we spend more, we lose more, and we feel less safe. So why does AWS's securities are, see it differently? Well, Amazon uses this notion of a shared responsibility security model. In other words, they secure the S3 buckets, maybe the EC2 infrastructure, not maybe the EC2 infrastructure, but it's up to the customer to make sure that she is enforcing the policies and configuring systems that adhere to the edicts of the corporation. So I think this shared security model is a bit misunderstood by a lot of people. What do I mean by that? I think sometimes people feel like, well, my data's in the cloud and AWS has better security than I do. There we go, I'm good. Well, AWS probably does have better security than you do. Here's the problem with that. You still have all these endpoints and databases and file servers that you're managing and that you have to make sure comply with your security policies. Even if you're all in the cloud, ultimately you are responsible for securing your data. Let's take a listen to Katie Jenkins, the CISO of Liberty Mutual on this topic. We'll come back. So the shared responsibility model is, I think that's an important speaking point of this whole ecosystem. At the end of the day, Liberty Mutual, our duty is to protect policy holder data. It doesn't matter if it's in the cloud, if it's in our data setters, we have that duty to protect. It's on you. All right, so there you have it from a leading security practitioner. The cloud is not a silver bullet. Bad user behavior is going to trump good security every time. So unfortunately the battle goes on. And here's where it gets tricky. Security practitioners are drowning in a sea of incidents. They have to prioritize and respond to, and as you heard Robert Herjavek say, the average large company has 75 security products installed. Now we recently talked to another CISO, Brian Lozada, and asked him, what's the number one challenge for security pros? Here's what he said. The lack of talent. I mean, we're starving for talent. Cyber security is the only field in the world with negative unemployment. We just don't have the actual bodies to actually fill the gaps that we have. And in that lack of talent, CISOs are starving. We're looking for the right tools to actually patch these holes and we just don't have it. Again, we have to force the industry to patch all of those resource gaps with innovation and automation. I think CISOs really need to start asking for more automation and innovation within their program. So bottom line is we can't keep throwing humans at the problem. Can't keep throwing tools at the problem. Automation is the only way in which we're going to be able to keep up. All right, so let's pivot and dig into some of the ETR data. First, I want to share with you what ETR is saying overall, what their narrative looks like around spending. So in the overall security space, it's pretty interesting what ETR says and it dovetails into some of the macro trends that I've just shared with you. Let's talk about CISOs and CISOs. ETR is right on when they tell me that these executives no longer have a blank check to spend on security. They realize they can't keep throwing tools and people at the problem. They don't have the bodies. And as we heard from Brian Lazada, and so what you're seeing is a slowdown in the growth, somewhat of a slowdown in security spending. It's still a priority, but there's less redundancy. In other words, less experimentation with new vendors and less running systems in parallel with legacy products. So there's a slowdown in adoption of new tools and more replacement of legacy stuff is what we're seeing. As a result, ETR has identified this bifurcation between those vendors that are very well positioned and those that are losing wallet share. Let me just mention a few that have the momentum and we're going to dig into this data in more detail, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Okta, which does identity management. Cisco is coming at the problem from its networking strength. Microsoft, which recently announced Sentinel for Azure. These are the players and some of them that are best positioned, I'll mention some others, from the standpoint of spending momentum in the ETR data set. Now here's a few of those that are losing momentum. Checkpoint, Sonic Wall, ArcSight. Dell EMC, which is RSA, it's kind of mixed. Talk about that a little bit, IBM, Symantec, even FireEye is seeing somewhat higher citations of decreased spending in the ETR surveys and data set. So there's a little bit of a cause for concern. Now, let's remember the methodology here. Every quarter ETR asks, are you green, meaning adopting this vendor as new or spending more? Are you neutral, which is gray, are you spending the same or are you red? Meaning that you're spending less or retiring. You subtract the red from the green and you get what's called a net score. The higher the net score, the better. So here's a chart that shows a ranking of security players and their net scores. The barge show survey data from October 18, July 19 and October 19. In here, you see strength from CrowdStrike, Locta, TwistLock, which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks. You see Elastic, Microsoft, Illumio, the core Palo Alto classic, Splunk, looking strong, Cisco, Fortinet, the Zscaler is starting to show somewhat slowing net score momentum. Look at Carbon Black. Carbon Black is showing a meaningful drop in net score. So VMware has some work to do, but generally the companies to the left are showing spending momentum in the ETR dataset and I'll show another view on net score in a moment. But I want to show a chart here that shows replacement spending and decrease spending citations. Notice the yellow. That's the ETR October 19 survey of spending intentions and the bigger the yellow bar, the more negative. So Sagar, the director of research at ETR pointed this out to me that, look at this, there are about a dozen companies where 20%, a fifth of their customer base is decreasing spend or ripping them out, heading into the year end.  IBM, same thing. Dell EMC, which is RSA, Slyte Uptik, that's a bit of a concern. So you can see this bifurcation that ETR has been talking about for a while. Now here's a really interesting cut, another interesting kind of net score. What I'm showing here is the ETR data sorted by net score, again higher is better, and shared in, which is the number of shared accounts in the survey, essentially the number of mentions in that October survey with 1,336 IT buyers responded. So how many of that 1,300 identified these companies? So essentially it's a proxy for the size of the install base. So showing up on both charts is really good. So look, CrowdStrike has a 62% net score with 133 shared accounts. So a fairly sizable install base and a very high net score. Okta, similar, Palo Alto Networks, and Splunk, both large continue to show strength. Again, net scores are 44% and 313 shared in. Fortinet shows up in both. Proofpoint, look at Microsoft and Cisco with 521 and 385 respectively on the right hand side. So big install bases with very solid net scores. Now look at the flip side, go down to the bottom right to IBM, 132 shared accounts with a 14.4% net score, that's very low. Checkpoint, similarly, same with Symantec. Again, bifurcation that ETR has been citing really stark in this chart. All right, so I want to wrap and from, you know, in some respects, from a practitioner perspective, this guy, Erexy, is falling. You got an increased attack surface. You've got exploding number of IP addresses.  And oh, by the way, we're all turning into a digital business, which is all about data. So it's a very, very dangerous time for companies and it's somewhat chaotic. Now chaos, of course, can mean cash for cyber security companies and investors. This is still a very vibrant space. So just by the way of comparison in looking at some of the ETR data, check this out. What I'm showing here is companies in two sectors, security and storage, which I've said in previous episodes of breaking analysis, storage and especially traditional storage disk arrays are on the back burner, spending-wise, for many, many shops. This chart shows the number of companies in the ETR dataset with a net score greater than a specific target. So look, security has seven companies with a 49% net score or higher. Storage has one. Security has 18, above 39%, storage has five. Security has 31 companies in the ETR dataset with a net score higher than 30%, storage only has nine. And I like to think of 30% is kind of that, you know, the point at which you want to be above that 30%. As you can see, relatively speaking, security is an extremely vibrant space, but in many ways it is broken. Pat Gelsinger called it a do-over and is affecting a strategy to fix it. You know, personally, I don't think one company can solve this problem. It's certainly not VMware or even AWS or even Microsoft. It's too complicated, it's moving too fast. It's so lucrative for the bad guys with very low barriers to entry, as I mentioned. And as the saying goes, the good guys have to win every single day. The bad guys, they only have to win once.  So in my view, Brian Lozada, the CISO that we interviewed nailed it. The focus really has to be on automation. You know, we can't just keep using brute force and throwing tools at the problem. Machine intelligence and analytics are definitely going to be part of the answer, but the reality is, AI is still really complicated too. How do you operationalize AI? You talk to companies trying to do that. It's very, very tricky. Talk about lack of skills. That's one area that is a real challenge. So I predict the more things changed, the more you're going to see this industry remain a game of perpetual whack-a-mole. There's certainly going to be continued consolidation and unquestionably, M&A is going to be robust in this space. So I would expect to see continued stories in the trade press of breaches. And you're going to hear scare tactics by the vendor community that want to take advantage of the train wrecks. And I wish I had better news for practitioners. But frankly, this is great news for investors if they can follow the trends and find the right opportunities. This is Dave Vellante for Cube Insights, powered by ETR. Connect with me at David.Vellante at siliconangle.com or at D.Vellante on Twitter. Or please comment on what you're seeing in the marketplace in my LinkedIn post. Thanks for watching. Thank you for watching this breaking analysis. We'll see you next time.


Hello there. Wait, how have you been though? Talk to me. I'm cool. Just been chilling, honestly. Just living life doing the best I can. How are you feeling about the season? I'm feeling optimistic. We're working so hard to get to, you know, just becoming a great team. So we just got to keep pushing. We right there. And we know we there, so. Who do you vibe with there? I know who your best friend was. And that Green Bay Packers locker room.  Hmm. Honestly, it's like a mixture of everybody. I feel like my boy, Leaf is so funny. Nate and Bruce, we be playing Smash Brothers together. We got a ping pong table. I would say Tim, Tim Boyle is the best. And Andre, Craig and the Andre, they be going against each other, but they honestly gotten better. Dan Campbell. Is Dan Campbell playing ping pong with y'all? Nah, he ain't playing ping pong. He trying to get us ready for the game. My boy, he got a lot on his plate. I know he cared too much about us getting things on the right track for us to be, you know, not focused. Well, we saw on Hard Knocks, like you and him have a special relationship. So what's in the sauce there? What's in the sauce? For me, it's just, how can I put it? People think I'm a social person. I'm really not social. So it's like, it's real, like I don't connect with everybody, you know, the same.  And DC has never faulted. He always stood tall, kept his head high. You know, it's been a great example of showing what a great man can do. Being a positive person, trying to bring people and uplift people when there's adversity. Now you were with the Packers for a long time, four years there. This is your second year with the Lions. What's the biggest difference between playing for those two teams? The biggest difference, I think, is just really just team chemistry and just trying to get just trying to get everybody on the same page and being able to just trust each other a little bit more. And I feel like we really have all of it. But it's more of just, we have to just do it in the game. What does it like when you face Aaron Jones now? Honestly, I just, I think we just be going out there just to compete now. But this is a fun compete though. You know, now we get like, get after each other. See, I'm gonna score more than you or I'm gonna get a hundred and something. You know what I mean? But I just like it just because it's a positive a positive type of competition that's just gonna make us both better. And I just love seeing my brother do good just because it always inspires me. Like he's an inspiration, you know? And I just be learning from just people who I know have experienced a lot. Man, you came out like this. You came out so positive. Like all this stuff made you this positive person. That's what inspires me too. There's this idea about you that you are always having fun, that you are always on one that you're really, really social. You're telling me that's a false premise. That's not true. I'm social in certain parts that like most of the time I talk to my friends from back home on like my Xbox, you know what I mean? And sometimes I'm not even playing the game. It's just mostly just to be able to talk to them. But yeah, I'm not a... If I could stay inside, I'd stay inside if I could. Are you an introvert, Jamal? Yeah, I don't... The only thing, like if I go out, I do things that I can do by myself. Like I can go skating. I can go to the golf range, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? Like little quiet things to do. What kind of skateboard? Roller skate. You roller skate around where? Well, back home at... Back home at... Well, at BYU, I used to go to the class of skating. I kept myself occupied by going skating every weekend. And I was good, honestly. I was going to the weekends, but now I go... When I'm back home in the off-season, I go like three times a week. What does that do for you? I've never heard this about you. What does that do for you? Uh... It's because I put... I just put my headphones in, and I feel like it's just another way of soothing, relaxing. It's a peaceful vibe. I just like to do things that just calm me, because I've already got a lot of... A lot of things that's already on my mind that I deal with on a daily basis.  I just want to make sure that I'm just making myself proud and not... not to have that regret of I'm not doing everything I can to be the best me. I think this... You're going to blow people's minds on this, because I don't think... I think everyone looks at you and they see the highlights of you dancing, having a great time, really good aftermate to everyone I've ever talked to. I just be having fun and just be in my zone. That's just how I be happy. I be looking at people all the way up to the top, and they don't be thinking I be looking at them, and I see somebody with a 30 jersey on, and I just point up there, and they... The only reason they know is me, because they know I be dancing already. But I see them and I can point at them, hit them with... They hit me with a heart sign, hit it on the back, and it just be... You know, it's just like a good connection and just feeling good. Jamal Williams! Can he take it to the house? Yes, he can! Touchdown Lions! What attracts you to anime so much? I don't know what you're wearing. You're clearly wearing... I believe, I hope I'm... I hope that's not wrong. An anime sweatshirt. So what... I know very little about it. Do you have your own character? My producer, they're talking and saying, ask him if he's the sand demon. Tell me what I need to know. Okay. Well, all right. Well, this right here, this is from a show called Demon Slayer. Her name is Nezuko. Nezuko. So... Yeah. So if you ever want to watch anime, I feel like you will like... You will like Demon Slayer. Okay. You will like Demon Slayer. Why?  That's true. When you're ready, I just need you to watch one anime. But when you're ready, after you watch one and then you'll be like, Jamal, do you have any more recommendations? I would already have them ready because I feel like you, like all the suspenseful ones, I like mostly the villain. Okay. Because they be having a lot of resolve. And they be having real reasons on why they be villain. That's why. And if I was in the anime, I would be a villain. Just because it looks fun. And what would I be? Hold on a second. What would I be? You will definitely be the hero because you will like, you be trying to save everybody and taking the heat for everybody. No, I want to be the villain. You can't be the villain right now. Yes, I can. What? I'm going to watch one. There's a romance storyline. I didn't even know that was the thing. Is it just entertainment for you or does it actually inspire you in a way? Oh, it's inspiration. Naruto is one of the most nice, generous people in the show. And he basically inspires a whole bunch of people who were, they started off as villains and then ended up being heroes. Yeah. Ended up fighting for them and stuff like that. Well, I don't like that you're saying all these things about the villains being so good characters. I can't be the villain. No, not yet. The villain this week is the dolphins. What are you focused on in this game? I focus on getting big. That's all. I just want to be more explosive than I've ever been. And I just got to, I just got to thank you. I just got to believe in myself and be the Kazakage I know I am. I can't wait. What is this? What are you talking about? Look, you get me excited already. I got a couple of days before this game. You already got to be thinking of me. Oh, Lord.  You are so much going on. You listen to everyone and you're inspired by so many different things. And I just think I was, this was a really special conversation. So thank you. And I just want to be the villain. Don't try to make me, don't put me in a woman box. I want them to have... You already, you already got the jacket on for it.   I look chic. I don't know what you're talking about. You look like you're supposed to be snapping. You look like you're supposed to be snapping.  Oh, please. You know how the Super Saiyan charge up? No. What is that? So you never, so you never looked in the mirror and go, ah, you never yelled? No. Oh my God. Yeah. You never watched Dragon Ball Z? I've heard of, it's like this, it's like the Street Fighter. No. Why? What story? It's what, whether like, whether Ryu and Ken went, I did a little good. And then it would shoot. It's not the Dragon Ball list. It's not the same. Tell me what to do. I go in my mirror. So in the morning, you know how you gotta get yourself motivated? Yes. Okay.  But this is what I do. I literally wake up and I go in the mirror and I just, and I just, yeah, like I'm powering up the Super Saiyan 4 for at least like 10 seconds. Like show me. Can you show, I'll do it with you, but you gotta, how loud? Like, oh, you gotta get in like, I love you. Good luck again. Exactly. Bye.


Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Brothers and sisters, as Ramadan approaches its beautiful conclusion, our hearts turn with anticipation towards a very special night, Lailatul Qadr, night of power. The Quran itself speaks about the majesty of this night and it's mentioned many times not only in the Quran and in Hadith, the night is hidden within the last ten nights and if we seek the majesty of this night and we constantly try to achieve this blessing it's worth more than a thousand months and we always question why is that? Why is it so much blessings? You know in the time of Noah, people used to live up to a thousand years. They used to live many many many many lives. Some people always would get puberty when they were like 80. It was crazy. So now we don't have the opportunity to live that much and we have that Lailatul Qadr if we do it over many many years. Because yeah, imagine the reward of a sincere worship on a single night that's better than a thousand months. The Prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he said whoever stands in prayer during Lailatul Qadr with faith and hoping for Allah's reward his sin all in his previous sins will be forgiven. This is in Bukhari and Muslim. So how can we prepare ourselves for Lailatul Qadr, you know for this extraordinary night? You know of course Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wasallam would worship even more during Lailatul Qadr, during the last ten nights and he was already the most generous outside of Ramadan. So imagine inside of Ramadan and then imagine inside of the last ten nights. It was like double double double trouble trouble. You know what I'm saying? He would be the most generous outside of Ramadan and inside of Ramadan. So of course we got an increasing worship. You know we got a sound for those Qiyam. You know think that you know anything in this nonya it's not worth it and nothing is worth it you know.  You know Tawawih prayer, recitation of the Quran. This is all types of the Bada. Beautiful are our intentions. You know that's all it is about. You know sometimes we have work we have things to do in the morning. Sometimes we don't have the time to do 20 rakahs of Tawawih but if we have the correct intentions Allah is going to reward us as if we did all 20 even if we couldn't. We got to seek forgiveness constantly. You know this is the night of power. So of course we have a lot of sins, a lot of things that we need to ask forgiveness for. So insha'Allah Allah forgive us. And of course may du'a be du'a. But yeah remember that the exact date of date of the cover is unknown. Some people say it's in the last ten nights. Some people say it's the odd night and some people say it's the 27th night. All of those answers are correct because the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said seek laylatul qadr in the last ten nights specifically the odd nights and many Sahaba may Allah be pleased with them had dreams about it in the last seven nights to be specific. And many Sahaba they have narrated that the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would pray extra on the 27th specifically. So whatever date is if it's an odd night or if it's not an odd night, if it's on the 27th or not on the 27th just pray. We don't know exactly when laylatul qadr. It could be on the even nights or the odd nights. And may Allah grant us the wisdom to recognize laylatul qadr and fill it with sincerity badda. May He forgive our sins, accept the du'a and shower us with His mercy. JazakAllah khairan. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.


How's it going everybody, Estas here and in this video we're going to be doing an overall market update, taking a look at the Dow Jones, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, we're also going to be doing a trading update talking about what I personally did today in the markets as well as some stocks and ETFs that I'm watching and looking to trade right now in the middle of December of 2019. And as you guys read in the title, we're also going to be breaking down UGAS, DGAS and the natural gas report which came out today and it comes out every Thursday at 10.30AM for those of you guys that don't know, Eastern Standard Time. And I also want to go over two stocks that are breaking out and that I am very interested in buying and one that I already did buy right now. So if you guys enjoyed the video, hit that like button, consider subscribing, join our Strafsmar Discord and our Facebook group, those are linked down below. And if you want two free stocks from Webull valued up to 1400 bucks for simply depositing $100 into the account, the link is down below. So S&P 500 here guys ended up closing up 26 points, $26.94 to be exact, up 0.86%. We hit another all-time high at 3176.28 and if we go to the 5-day-5 minute you can see the explosion that we saw today. And we kind of saw this coming. If you guys saw my video yesterday based on the technicals on the S&P, we saw how this thing closed very, very bullish. You can see we had that sell-off period a couple of days. We were downtrending lower lows, lower highs, all that good stuff. Then yesterday we gapped out of that. We broke the trend. We were consolidating a bit here at around 31.30. Then ultimately we broke up towards the end of the trading session. And today we started off pretty flat and then we got a catalyst of, guess what, Mr. President Trump, the President of the United States, he tweeted this right here, getting very close to a big deal with China, they want it and so do we. And we all know guys, the tweets, the tweets. They can help us and they can crush us. This is one time they helped us, right? Markets are going up, but we've seen tweets that come out that drop the markets just as quick. And to be honest, this is exactly what the stock market needed ahead of this December 15th deadline, in my opinion, because as you guys saw, again, going back to that sell-off, we were selling off because there was fear in the markets, fear of what's going to happen with this tariff deadline, $160 billion worth of tariffs. Now that we got obviously that good piece of optimism, that tweet from President Trump and nice timing there, President Trump, five minutes into the market open, right? Once we got that, boom, there go the markets up to 31.76. That move, guys, was 35 points. And if we show, or if I show you guys what that is, that's a 1% move in the matter of what, like 30, 45 minutes to an hour, then ultimately we sold off. But that doesn't matter because we just closed 15 minutes ago on a very nice little upswing, very bullish close. So this is looking quite bullish in my personal opinion. And again, we hit an all-time high. So I'm interested in seeing what happens here tomorrow. Friday is going to be very interesting. The deadline is on Sunday, I believe, December 15th. So that's something that could impact the markets on Monday. So a lot of things are going on here in the next couple of days. Yeah, so let's talk about the Dow Jones, up 220 points at the close, up 0.79%. All-time high was hit, $28,224.95. And you guys can see once Trump tweeted that, boom, there goes the Dow Jones from 27.8%, all the way up to 28.200%. That's a 1.2% move in the matter of 30 to 45 minutes, which again is absolutely crazy. And on the five-day five-minute chart, you can see we were descending, pulling back yesterday, we broke the downtrend. Today, we completely broke the downtrend with this explosion. And yeah, we're looking really bullish now on a technical basis for the Dow Jones. And pulling up the NASDAQ here, guys, this one was up 60 points here, up 0.71% at the close. And you can see we also hit an all-time high at $8,497 today. And on the five-day five-minute, you can see we were downtrending, but ultimately, we broke out. And yeah, the massive spike, you can see it there. I don't know what that notification is. But anyway, we can see the massive spike from there, $8,390 up, 100 points in the matter of 30, 45 minutes. That's pretty crazy, 1.2%. We sold off after that. But just like the S&P and the Dow, we ended up holding that uptrend, very bullish close here on the NASDAQ. So that's pretty much it. You know, the markets, again, they're dealing with a lot of uncertainty. But with that tweet, that's pushing a lot of optimism into the markets right now. And over these next couple of days, you know, a lot of things can happen. Like I've been mentioning and like I mentioned on my Instagram, which is linked down below, go follow me. You know, if these tariffs go into effect, which a lot of people don't think they will, right, I think these markets could potentially sell off. But with Trump saying this in his tweet, that's kind of hinting towards a delay in my opinion in these tariffs, which could lead, like I've mentioned, to even higher prices here in the stock market because the trade war, you know, these tariffs, it's really a lever in the market where, if it's positive, that's going to be pushing up these markets, right? If the lever is going negative, negotiations are a poor, that's going to bring the market down. So at this point, that's what I'm waiting for. I'm still being a bit more cautious. I want to see officially what's going to happen here, December 15th, all that good stuff. And I'd love to know what you guys have to think about that down below in those comments. So let's talk about natural gas, U-Gas, D-Gas and what ended up happening today after that report. So if I pull up these natural gas futures contracts, you can see they're currently up nine cents here, guys, almost 10 cents up 4.28%, which is a pretty crazy move considering how much natural gas has been getting crushed to the downside here over the past couple of weeks, right? And if we pull up this hourly chart, you can see ever since we gap down, and I called this out pretty much in Sunday's video, you know, extremely oversold, we gap down, we've recovered from that level, right? 215, we've recovered back to that 180 SMA, which has proven to be a resistance here over these past couple of weeks, right? So now we're at a point in natural gas where I'm not going short, but I'm not going long. I'm looking to see what we do at this point here before making my decisions. So pretty much in tomorrow's session, you know, if we break out like this, right, you can see the arrows from last time I analyzed it a couple of days ago. We did not break out there. We got rejected, but if this time we break out, that's going to be a technical sign to go along U-Gas, which goes up whenever natural gas is going up, right? And you guessed it, if we get rejected like we did last time, that could be a sign to go long on D-Gas ticker symbol DGAZ. And if we take a look here at the natural gas report, guys, we can see we had a total withdrawal of 73 billion cubic feet. And for my personal research today and over the past couple of days, that's pretty much in line with what the analysts were expecting for this particular report. So if we break it down here, you can see we had a 24 BCF withdrawal from the East, 27 BCF withdrawal from the Midwest, 7 BCF from the Mountain Pacific. We had a 10 BCF withdrawal from the South Central. We had a 6 BCF withdrawal, salt, 5 BCF withdrawal, and non-salt, 11 BCF withdrawal. So pretty much all across the board, that is what happened through all of the major regions. And this represents, as you guys can see down here, a net decrease of 73 BCF as we just talked about. Stocks were 593 BCF higher than the last year. Again, we have more production this year at this time and 14 BCF below the five-year average of 35-32 BCF. So compared to last year, a lot more production, but pretty much in line with what the five-year average is for natural gas in terms of the storage. So what does this mean for natural gas? Let's take a look at what ended up happening. And then we'll talk about why what ended up happening ended up happening. So natural gas, again, we had a ridiculous bullish move today. And if we break that down in terms of the action around the report, you guys can see we were pretty much consolidating all pre-market here today and into the market open. And right before the report or right after the report, we dumped pretty aggressively on the, you know, mildly bearish report that we ended up getting. And from there, what caused this massive spike, I believe, and what we talked about in yesterday's video are these upcoming weather models that are showing a bit more of a cold front. And right now, with a lot of hedge funds being short natural gas, believe it or not, I know a lot of you guys know that. But a lot of hedge funds are short. A lot of people in general are short because they are expecting a mild winter and they know production is high, like we saw. It's a lot higher than it was last year. You know, they're rooting for that warm weather. But now we're getting this cold model that, you know, is shaking up the price here. It's pushing the price up. And obviously these hedge funds, these shorts, they obviously don't want to see warm weather because that is what's going to collapse their whole theory as being a short on natural gas. So let's talk about some of this weather right now from NatGasWeather.com. So for December 12th to the 18th, after a chilly start to the day with lows of negative 10s to 20s for strong demand, milder conditions will spread across the country the next few days with highs of upper 40s to 70s gaining in coverage, warmest across Texas and the south for lighter national demand. Demand will increase though early next week as cooling returns across many regions of the U.S., like I just mentioned, coldest across the Midwest and the Northeast as lows of zeroes to 20s return along with areas of rain and snow. It's late next week where the GFS model shows cold lasting but with the European model showing warming. Overall strong demand today, moderate Friday to Sunday and back to high early next week. So that's kind of some weather we're expecting. Again a cold front is expected here over over the next I'd say 5 to 10 days and that's what's bringing up these prices at the end of the day right? That's what's seeing this 4% move and you guys seeing a very big move of 11% up 89 cents on the day and if we go to you guys we can see or rather degas we can see this thing was down about 11% down about $18 on the day. So moving forward guys I'm taking this bullish move very seriously here that we saw today and again back to that level that we talked about on natural gas let's say this catalyst of the cold front you know this cold weather kind of out of nowhere that we're experiencing here let's say this this this lasts and we get that technical break the first thing I'm looking to see is if we could fill the gap up to around $2 and maybe 43 cents you know and from there maybe around $2 and 49 to about $2 and 50 cents so the breakout would be very bullish and from there we may fill the gap which you guys will see a rally that it's much needed it's really needed for a while at this point right and that would probably get us above that 180 SMA which overall would be a breakout here on you guys so overall report kind of you know in line with analysts a bit bearish but this cold weather this front this cold front is what is pushing the prices up and really getting this bullish spike that we are seeing in you guys and natural gas and of course dropping gas so let me know what you guys think about that down below and now let's talk about what I did today in terms of my trading guys very very simple you know that I'm holding PayPal from yesterday ticker symbol PYPL ended up buying in on this dip here about $104 and 30 cents so I'm holding that with plans on selling at around 108 bucks and I entered Activision Blizzard today which is going to lead us into the two breakout stocks that I'm watching this one is one that I actually bought guys and I've been watching this for the past couple of months to see when it's going to break above 56 57 ish that area and we finally got the bullish push today and we can see a lot of buyers started to come in here guys because once we did start to break out of that level take a look at this one day one minute we just got more and more bullish more and more people pushing this price up more and more volume you know this is pretty impressive for ATV and really a determining factor as to why ended up getting in being that volume and being that very strong close here in the market and a lot of it's probably due to the overall market going up which is why I only put in a little bit of money this morning at about 57 30 I believe right around here we broke that we broke their resistance again that's a bullish signal that's what I wanted to see you to initiate a little position so right now I'm in at around that level again 57 30 right around here and I'm up about what like two 2.5% on my shares and I do plan on holding this maybe for a couple of weeks here as a longer term swing and either way guys I'm really happy with it because I'm long at V and my super long term portfolio and again I bought this today in my swing portfolio and I'm interested in trading it up to about 62 bucks that would be the ideal sell right around here 62 bucks that is the major resistance that is coming up so those are kind of my plans with at V and what I did today in terms of my trading just holding at V holding PayPal and really just riding this nice stock market push and my whole entire portfolio all my longs other than my you know short term trades here they did well today too so overall fantastic day in the markets and let's talk about that second stock that I'm looking to buy that is looking that really is already breaking out here that is ticker symbol SBUX also known as Starbucks guys and starting off here let's just look at the three year week chart I know a lot of people don't really look at longer term charts well I'm sure a lot of you guys do but it's not as popular as looking at let's say the 20 day whatever the 180 whatever that may be but we can see here we pulled down and we held that 50 SMA quite nicely at a higher low and we're actually breaking above the EMA now on this weekly chart so from a long long-term perspective that is good now if we break down the four hour chart which is a six month look we can see that we're actually also breaking above the 50 SMA we already did seems like we found a bottom here with a doubled bottom at around 82 bucks and we also broke that 180 SMA and we're seeing that bullish cross being the 50 SMA crossing above that 180 SMA so this is you know these are a bunch of signs and confirmations that we are breaking out here on Starbucks so today pushed us to a level where it is a bit overbought our size overbought we were up 2% today so I'd love to see a pull down maybe a retest at 87 bucks on the EMA maybe a retest all the way back down to 85 86 to that 50 SMA not too sure if we'll get that but that would be ideal for an entry here in my opinion but either way any pullback I'm really heavily considering buying and of course I'll let you guys know in the group chat the discord chat which is linked down below and that's where I'm active and we have over I think like 900 people in that chat at this point so go join that again that is linked down below so a couple of other stocks that I'm watching here Shopify is one of them and this is doing a quite quite of an interesting pattern right here it's in an interesting spot and we can see based on my little arrow here and if we pull up that hourly chart you'll be able to see it this is something that I was looking at earlier in the day I was seeing some struggle here on Shopify holding 370 this morning we obviously saw that big dump and I was seeing this and I'm like okay maybe we pull down a 350 maybe 355 hold that 180 SMA that could be a potential dip where I would probably load the boat on Shopify being this very hot stock that it has been right but as we can see that didn't happen we ended up reversing quite nicely heading into the close and ended up closing above 370 which I mentioned this in the chat we needed to close above this level for this to be um you know to remain bullish to be quite honest right and the fact that we did that and we zoom in a bit further let's say back to that 20 day chart you can see the fact that we did that we're trending above the EMA and that 50 SMA and now we can see if we hold this tomorrow if we consolidate on top of this tomorrow maybe we gap up that could be a a sign to go along again in my opinion especially if we break above 375 and ultimately the resistance from three days ago being 380 bucks so my theory with Shopify is buy it don't buy it based on my opinion but for me what I'm telling myself is buy it anywhere above 375 and especially above 380 sell or don't consider it until it finds support if it breaks below I guess you can say 365 being a strong support that it held today and 360 bucks so that's kind of what I'm thinking now on Shopify ticker symbol SHOP another stock I'm watching here is obviously PayPal guys I'm in this one swinging it love the higher low hold on top of this 180 SMA this breakout that we're seeing this is along that I'm looking to hold up to 108 and it does have a lot more potential to break out from there another one that's breaking out now is Nvidia guys this one honestly could be in the same tier as at V right same pattern kind of we broke above our resistance right 220 now we're looking to fill the gap up to the next resistance which we can see is a pretty nice chunk away at about 240 bucks which gives us swing traders out there right a good chunk of profit to be made of around 6 to 7 percent so overall guys those are just a couple of stocks that I see a lot of potential and guys these are like screaming opportunities in my opinion especially at V and Nvidia not saying go buy them again for me they're screaming opportunities but for you you need to do your research you need to understand what you're trading and make a decision for yourself so overall that's it for this video guys if you enjoyed it feel free to go down below hit that like button consider subscribing if you want to see further content for me and don't forget to join that StriveSmart Discord group chat and the Facebook group if you 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