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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.

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Rust-for-Linux/linux

Forked from torvalds/linux

Adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.

C 1.6k 99
fishinabarrel/fishinabarrel.github.io

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

HTML 6 11
nyt-2020-election-scraper

HTML 1.8k 308
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?"

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topazproject/topaz

A high performance ruby, written in RPython

Python 981 87

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Contributed to pyca/cryptography, alex/rust-asn1, fishinabarrel/analysis and 5 other repositories

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September 2021

Created 3 commits in 1 repository

alex/rust-asn1 3 commits

Opened 2 pull requests in 1 repository

alex/rust-asn1 2 merged

Bump for 0.6.2 release Sep 4
Track length explicitly on sequences Sep 4

Reviewed 6 pull requests in 2 repositories

pyca/cryptography 5 pull requests

Bump syn from 1.0.75 to 1.0.76 in /src/rust Sep 4
Bump asn1 from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2 in /src/rust Sep 4
Make OAEP test vector generating works on python3 Sep 4
raise a ValueError if the AEAD tag is too long Sep 3
Updated recommendations for PBKDF2 Sep 3

pyca/infra 1 pull request

Bump docker/setup-buildx-action from 1.5.1 to 1.6.0 Sep 6

Created an issue in joshua-maros/ouroboros that received 4 comments

Why does with_* require HRTB for non-covariant / is there a way to make this lifetime work

When a tail field contains an UnsafeCell it must be #[non_covariant] which means you cannot have the nice borrow_* method, alas. I'm struggling to …

4 comments

Opened 1 other issue in 1 repository

fishinabarrel/analysis 1 closed

oss-fuzz last week: 42 bug-security Sep 1