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

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https://alexgaynor.net

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pyca/cryptography Public

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

Python 4.7k 1k
Rust-for-Linux/linux Public

Forked from torvalds/linux

Adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.

C 2.3k 171
fishinabarrel/fishinabarrel.github.io Public

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

HTML 9 12
nyt-2020-election-scraper Public

HTML 1.8k 308
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?"

33.6k 2.5k
topazproject/topaz Public

A high performance ruby, written in RPython

Python 984 89

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

Contribution activity

April 2022

Created 20 commits in 3 repositories

Created a pull request in pyca/cryptography that received 4 comments

Added CentOS Stream 9 to CI

+17 −8 • 4 comments

Opened 18 other pull requests in 3 repositories

pyca/cryptography 14 merged 1 closed

fixes #7081 -- correctly handle escape sequences in RFC4514 strings Apr 16
fix comment for find_in_pem Apr 15
Bump actions/checkout due to changes in git in some containers Apr 15
bump boringssl version in ci Apr 15
Drop manylinux2010 wheels for PyPy Apr 14
version isn't required in wheel builder Apr 14
Build wheels for PyPy 3.9. Apr 14
Update pyo3 to 0.15.2 Apr 14
[testing] test that tests pass with the pyo3 pypy backport Apr 12
bump boringssl in ci Apr 12
Implement a parser for RFC4514 strings Apr 9
bump boringssl in ci Apr 9
Added Ubuntu Jammy to CI Apr 6
Added a non-public API for setting the tag on an attribute Apr 5
fixes #7005 -- check if public keys are at infinity earlier Apr 1

pyca/infra 2 merged

Shorten job names Apr 4
Install tox from debian because everything is broken Apr 1

pyca/bcrypt 1 merged

fix for new docker images Apr 15

Reviewed 37 pull requests in 7 repositories

pyca/cryptography 25 pull requests

MSRV bump warning Apr 16
Add support for PSS.AUTO and PSS.DIGEST_LENGTH Apr 16
check for invalid keys that RSA_check_key misses Apr 16
Implement a parser for RFC4514 strings Apr 15
Use poetry directly to test josepy Apr 14
Bump libc from 0.2.122 to 0.2.123 in /src/rust Apr 13
Pin josepy to 1.13.0 in downstream tests Apr 12
Bump actions/setup-python from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2 Apr 12
Bump quote from 1.0.17 to 1.0.18 in /src/rust Apr 11
Use SPDX license expression in setup.cfg Apr 7
Bump actions/setup-python from 3.1.0 to 3.1.1 Apr 7
Bump proc-macro2 from 1.0.36 to 1.0.37 in /src/rust Apr 7
Bump libc from 0.2.121 to 0.2.122 in /src/rust Apr 7
Bump syn from 1.0.90 to 1.0.91 in /src/rust Apr 6
Added a non-public API for setting the tag on an attribute Apr 5
fix two compiler warnings Apr 4
serialize certs to pkcs7 Apr 4
increase default python version for testing Apr 4
update pkcs7 test vectors Apr 3
SIV support Apr 3
small refactors for upcoming SIV support Apr 3
add new bindings for OpenSSL 3.0.0 cipher fetching/freeing Apr 3
our NIST vector loader needs unique keys Apr 3
we documented this as 2**31 - 1, enforce it at the right spot Apr 3
bump boring in CI Apr 2
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pyca/infra 5 pull requests

switch to openssl 3.0.2 Apr 16
add pypy 3.9, update pypy 3.7 and 3.8, delete pypy 3.6 Apr 14
Bump actions/download-artifact from 2 to 3 Apr 11
build centos stream containers (including fips variant) Apr 4
switch to venvs for tox/coverage in all our containers Apr 2

alex/rust-asn1 1 pull request

OID macro! Apr 15

hallowauth/hallow 1 pull request

Bump github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go from 1.29.0 to 1.30.0 Apr 14

PyO3/pyo3 1 pull request

Backport PyPy 3.9 support for pyo3 0.15 Apr 12

Rust-for-Linux/linux 1 pull request

rust: upgrade to Rust 1.60 Apr 12

pyca/pynacl 1 pull request

fix circleci for the new tox path in the infra containers Apr 11

Opened 8 issues in 2 repositories

fishinabarrel/analysis 6 closed 1 open

CVE-2021-1782, an iOS in-the-wild vulnerability in vouchers Apr 14
oss-fuzz last week: 25 bug-security Apr 13
CISA known exploited vulns DB Apr 13
Chrome 100.0.4896.88 Apr 12
Google’s Shane Huntley on zero-days and the nation-state threat landscape Apr 11
CVE-2021-30737, @xerub's 2021 iOS ASN.1 Vulnerability Apr 8
oss-fuzz last week: 72 bug-security Apr 6

pyca/cryptography 1 open

Add benchmarks to the repository Apr 15