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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.

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Rust-for-Linux/linux Public

Forked from torvalds/linux

Adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.

C 3.3k 302
fishinabarrel/fishinabarrel.github.io Public

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

HTML 12 13
nyt-2020-election-scraper Public

HTML 1.8k 302
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 997 87

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Activity overview

Contributed to pyca/cryptography, alex/rust-asn1, pyca/bcrypt and 84 other repositories

Contribution activity

March 2023

Created 13 commits in 3 repositories

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

Add an ignore for the newest ruff

Clearly document why we have each of our ignores

+5 −4 • 2 comments

Opened 12 other pull requests in 2 repositories

pyca/cryptography 10 merged

Remove use of deprecated EC functions Mar 6
Shrink the cache for ~/.cargo/bin Mar 5
don't fail-fast in the linux-rust-coverage jobs Mar 4
remove final unused bindings from x509_vfy Mar 4
remove one last unused ssl function Mar 4
we do not check for an openssl bin anymore Mar 4
remove unused ssl bindings Mar 4
ignore ntt in linkcheck Mar 2
Bump version numbers for 39.0.2 release Mar 2
Update to the new wycheproof (#8403) Mar 1

sfackler/rust-openssl 1 merged 1 open

bump actions/cache version Mar 4
Added support for building boringssl with bindgen Mar 4

Reviewed 28 pull requests in 4 repositories

pyca/cryptography 23 pull requests

remove memleak tests for x509 paths that no longer use openssl Mar 6
use the rsa fixtures in x509 too Mar 6
double the speed of our rsa tests Mar 6
Bump rich from 13.3.1 to 13.3.2 Mar 6
Bump cxx-build from 1.0.91 to 1.0.92 in /src/rust Mar 6
Bump unicode-ident from 1.0.7 to 1.0.8 in /src/rust Mar 6
Bump scratch from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5 in /src/rust Mar 6
Bump BoringSSL and/or OpenSSL in CI Mar 6
drop support for openssl < 1.1.1d Mar 5
remove pytz test dependency Mar 5
deprecate support for OpenSSL <1.1.1d Mar 5
update all-green to py311 Mar 5
faster linkcheck and rust jobs Mar 4
Bump platformdirs from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 Mar 4
Bump pytest from 7.2.1 to 7.2.2 Mar 4
Bump scratch from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4 in /src/rust Mar 4
Bump unicode-ident from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 in /src/rust Mar 4
don't run benchmarks if we haven't touched the src or tests Mar 4
pointlessly optimize our ossl custom builds Mar 4
Bump BoringSSL and/or OpenSSL in CI Mar 4
Bump BoringSSL and/or OpenSSL in CI Mar 3
port 39.0.2 changelog to main Mar 2
Bump BoringSSL and/or OpenSSL in CI Mar 2

pyca/infra 3 pull requests

pyca/bcrypt 1 pull request

Bump unicode-ident from 1.0.6 to 1.0.8 in /src/_bcrypt Mar 6

hallowauth/hallow 1 pull request

Bump github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go from 1.37.0 to 1.38.0 Mar 3