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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 Public

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

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Rust-for-Linux/linux Public

Forked from torvalds/linux

Adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.

C 2.2k 149
fishinabarrel/fishinabarrel.github.io Public

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

HTML 9 11
nyt-2020-election-scraper Public

HTML 1.8k 309
what-happens-when Public

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 Public

A high performance ruby, written in RPython

Python 983 87

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

Contribution activity

February 2022

Created 26 commits in 4 repositories

Created a pull request in pyca/infra that received 6 comments

use failfast so we can see all the broken

+2 −0 • 6 comments

Opened 27 other pull requests in 5 repositories

pyca/cryptography 20 merged 1 closed

fixes #6877 -- bump boringssl Feb 17
Make a branch more specific now that libressl 3.4 is out Feb 16
fixes #6873 -- bump boringssl version Feb 16
fixed #6869 - bump boringssl version in ci Feb 15
Pin setuptools to fix build failure on pypy Feb 14
Don't generate subtests for KBKDF vectors that are always skipped Feb 13
fixes #6862 -- added a test case for pkcs12 serialization with an RSA key Feb 12
Bump BoringSSL in CI Feb 11
fixes #6855 -- update boringssl in CI Feb 9
fixes #6580 -- allow serializing SCT extension Feb 8
fixes #6835 -- add signatures with sha3 for rsa and ecdsa Feb 8
refs #6835 -- added oid constants for SHA3 signatures Feb 8
fixes #6848 -- bump boringssl version used in ci Feb 8
Run 3.11-dev a bunch to see if it still crashes Feb 7
Test against Alpine on aarch64 Feb 7
Timeout fetching from cache Feb 6
Switch from centos to rhel in CI Feb 6
fixes #6804 -- improve error message quality with invalid characters … Feb 6
instrument-coverage is being stabalized, switch to stable flag Feb 6
fixes #6840 - update boringssl Feb 5
attempt to disable spotlight Feb 2

alex/rust-asn1 2 merged

fixes #243 -- impl std::error::Error for ParseError Feb 14
Drop CI privs Feb 4

pyca/pyopenssl 2 merged

Stop passing backend to cryptography Feb 13
Use a non-deprecated OpenSSL function Feb 13

pyca/infra 1 merged

Build an aarch64 alpine container image Feb 6

pypa/manylinux 1 closed

Use vault for repos in manylinux2014 Feb 6

Reviewed 15 pull requests in 8 repositories

pyca/cryptography 8 pull requests

Bump libc from 0.2.117 to 0.2.118 in /src/rust Feb 15
Bump actions/github-script from 5 to 6 Feb 15
Document cross compilation target == host bugfix. Feb 13
Bump ouroboros from 0.13.0 to 0.14.2 in /src/rust Feb 12
refs #6835 -- added oid constants for SHA3 signatures Feb 8
Bump autocfg from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0 in /src/rust Feb 8
Bump actions/setup-python from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2 Feb 4
Bump libc from 0.2.116 to 0.2.117 in /src/rust Feb 3

Rust-for-Linux/linux 1 pull request

docs: rust: fix warnings due to spurious literal block Feb 11

hallowauth/hallow 1 pull request

Bump actions/setup-go from 2.1.5 to 2.2.0 Feb 9

alex/what-happens-when 1 pull request

Add Spanish translation Feb 8

alex/line-counter 1 pull request

Bump autocfg from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0 Feb 8

pyca/infra 1 pull request

centos8 is dead, moving infra to rhel8 Feb 5

twisted/twisted 1 pull request

10302: Use assertEqual() in test_workertrial to fix PyPy3 Feb 4

pyca/pynacl 1 pull request

Fix typos Feb 2

Created an issue in pypa/setuptools that received 8 comments

[BUG] setuptools._vendor.pyparsing.ParseException on pypy wiht tox with setuptools 60.9.0

setuptools version 60.9.0 Python version pypy 3.7 OS ubuntu linux Additional environment information No response Description Runnign tox with pypy …

8 comments

Opened 11 other issues in 2 repositories

fishinabarrel/analysis 10 closed

oss-fuzz last week: 54 bug-security Feb 16
Chrome 98.0.4758.102 Feb 15
Safari 15.3 Feb 10
macOS Monterey 12.2.1 Feb 10
iOS 15.3.1 and iPadOS 15.3.1 Feb 10
ChromeOS 98.0.4758.91 Feb 9
oss-fuzz last week: 47 bug-security Feb 9
Maddie Stone's Offensive Con talk Feb 9
Chrome 98.0.4758.80 Feb 6
oss-fuzz last week: 54 bug-security Feb 2

PyO3/pyo3 1 closed

PyBuffer support with limited ABI in py3.11+ Feb 2