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+\documentclass[a4paper]{article} 
+
+% packages
+\usepackage{microtype}      % Slightly tweak font spacing for aesthetics
+\usepackage[english]{babel} % Language hyphenation and typographical rules
+\usepackage{changepage}     % adjust margins on the fly
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+\usepackage[final, colorlinks = true, urlcolor = black, linkcolor = black, citecolor = black]{hyperref} 
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+\addbibresource{references.bib}
+\DeclareFieldFormat{urldate}{Accessed on: #1}
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+\usepackage{xcolor}
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+\usepackage[yyyymmdd]{datetime}
+\renewcommand{\dateseparator}{--}
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+\usepackage{titlesec}
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+% \titleformat{\subsection}{\Large\bfseries}{}{0em}{}
+% \titlespacing{\subsection}{0em}{-0.7em}{0em}
+%
+% \titleformat{\subsubsection}{\large\bfseries}{}{0em}{$\bullet$ }
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+% \setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
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+\begin{document}
+\hrule \medskip
+\begin{minipage}{0.295\textwidth} 
+    \raggedright
+    \footnotesize 
+    \begin{tabular}{@{}l l}
+        Name: & Andrew Hayes \\
+        Student ID: & 21321503 \\
+        E-mail: & \href{mailto://a.hayes18@universityofgalway.ie}{\texttt{a.hayes18@universityofgalway.ie}} \\
+    \end{tabular}
+\end{minipage}
+\begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth} 
+    \centering 
+    \vspace{0.4em}
+    \LARGE
+    \textsc{ct437} \\ 
+\end{minipage}
+\begin{minipage}{0.295\textwidth} 
+    \raggedleft
+    \today
+\end{minipage}
+\medskip\hrule 
+\begin{center}
+    \normalsize
+    Assignment 2: Using \& Benchmarking Block Ciphers with OpenSSL
+\end{center}
+\hrule
+\medskip
+
+\section{Block Cipher Benchmarking}
+\section{Implementing \& Benchmarking Triple-DES}
+
+\end{document}
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