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Alex Gaynor alex

I program computers, and build teams that program computers, with a heavy focus on security.

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pyca/cryptography

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

Python 3.4k 725
what-happens-when

An attempt to answer the age old interview question "What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?"

26.3k 1.9k
fishinabarrel/linux-kernel-module-rust

Framework for writing Linux kernel modules in safe Rust

Rust 716 49
fishinabarrel/fishinabarrel.github.io

Security research organization dedicated to finding low hanging, critical, vulnerabilities.

HTML 5 6
topazproject/topaz

A high performance ruby, written in RPython

Python 968 83
letsencrypt-aws

Python 730 115

4,104 contributions in the last year

Activity overview

Contributed to pyca/cryptography, hallowauth/hallow, fishinabarrel/linux-kernel-module-rust and 5 other repositories

Contribution activity

June 2020

alex/go-cloud Go Jun 15
alex/linuxbrew-core Ruby Jun 2

Created a pull request in pyca/cryptography that received 2 comments

Jun 1

Test on LibreSSL 3.2.0

+3 −1 • 2 comments

Fix for linkcheck Jun 20
Update the link to CERT's website for linkcheck Jun 14
Block a sphinx version that's broken Jun 12

Don't send PRs to update AWS SDK Jun 23
Fixed a typo in a comment Jun 19

Create github action to assign RUSTSEC ids Jun 21

Automatically zeroize Fernet on Drop Jun 19

blob/fileblob/: Handle List() when the bucket is rooted at / Jun 15

go 1.14.4 Jun 2

Run go mod tidy Jun 12
Bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1 Jun 8
Bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.5.1 to 1.6.0 Jun 1

add 'unsound' informational advisory kind Jun 21
Add `advisory::Id::numerical_part()` Jun 14

Add tiny-http HTTP Request Smuggling Jun 22

Derive Clone for Fernet, impl Error for DecryptionError, and fix Rust 2018 issues Jun 19

Remove some LLVM options which excessively slow down code Jun 9

Note that Render Tree also requires a CSSOM tree Jun 7

alpine no longer has py2 Jun 5

Created an issue in google/go-cloud that received 4 comments

Jun 14

blob/fileblob: No results returned for List with a bucket rooted at /

Describe the bug When a fileblob bucket is rooted at /, List seems to never return any results To Reproduce package main import ( "context" "fmt" "io"

4 comments

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