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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 3.5k 757
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?"

27.1k 2k
fishinabarrel/linux-kernel-module-rust

Framework for writing Linux kernel modules in safe Rust

Rust 970 66
fishinabarrel/fishinabarrel.github.io

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

HTML 6 7
topazproject/topaz

A high performance ruby, written in RPython

Python 971 85
letsencrypt-aws

Python 729 117

4,227 contributions in the last year

Activity overview

Contributed to pyca/cryptography, hallowauth/hallow, fishinabarrel/analysis and 5 other repositories

Contribution activity

September 2020

alex/endoflife.date Ruby Sep 6

Created a pull request in PyO3/pyo3 that received 4 comments

Implement set iterators in terms of limited API

+8 −26 • 4 comments

Android September Update Sep 8
ChromeOS 85.0.4183.84 Sep 2

Enable building abi3 shared objects Sep 7

Added go 1.15 Sep 6

Be clear that a lack of authentication often means you don't have secrecy Sep 5

Refactor the CStr API to reduce the need for nightly features Sep 5

Put the user arn in all log messages Sep 3

Initial Rust support Sep 6

Complete abi3 support Sep 6

Bump decompress from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 Sep 4

re-add a few engine bindings for advanced users Sep 1

Note the buffer slots can be set with PyType_Spec with the unlimited … Sep 1

Added Rust to the build image Sep 1

Created an issue in PyO3/pyo3 that received 2 comments

test_unsendable in test_class_basics is not run

pyo3/tests/test_class_basics.rs Lines 198 to 225 in 3c24d27 it's missing #[test]. I think this is probably a mistake, since there's no c…

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Pixel September Security Bulletin: Security patches Sep 9
Pixel September Security Bulletin: Qualcomm Sep 9
Android September Security Bulletin: Qualcomm Sep 9
Android September Security Bulletin: Kernel Sep 9
Chrome 85.0.4183.102 Sep 9
GPG 2.2.23 Sep 3
oss-fuzz last week: 32 vulnerabilities Sep 2

Joined the paramiko organization

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58 contributions in private repositories Sep 1 – Sep 8

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