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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.

Python 3.5k 753
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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fishinabarrel/linux-kernel-module-rust

Framework for writing Linux kernel modules in safe Rust

Rust 874 63
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 730 117

4,355 contributions in the last year

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

Contribution activity

August 2020

alex/skycfg Go Aug 28
alex/readthedocs-docker-images Dockerfile Aug 17

Created a pull request in PyO3/setuptools-rust that received 13 comments

Attempt to correctly handle 32-bit Python on 64-bit windows

Still doing testing, but getting this branch up now for visibility. Fixes #76

+19 −1 • 13 comments

fixed verify script that couldn't have ever worked Aug 29
Removed urllib3 downstream test Aug 28
run urllib3 tests under a newer distro Aug 28
Break users on OpenSSL 1.0.2 Aug 27
try running paramiko downstream tests on py3 Aug 27
re-enable paramiko downstream testing Aug 27
rephrase changelog entry Aug 24
bump libressl 3.1.x Aug 24
Run AWS SDK tests on Python 3.7 Aug 17
Attempt to drop the user switch in docker Aug 16
Integrate Rust into the build process properly Aug 16
clean up error stack in p7 Aug 15
Improve debugability of this internal error Aug 15
Attempt to get wycheproof working on arm64 Aug 15
update to latest libessl 3.1.x Aug 15
Sleep after errors to increase the chance of success Aug 7
Run pep8 and packaging in the same job Aug 7
define SYS_getrandom on linux arm64 Aug 6
Update which PyPy versions we test against Aug 6
Reduce the usage of python2 in CI for downstreams Aug 5

I'm back in black Aug 27
lock old issues Aug 14
fixes #934 -- kill dead link Aug 14
_only_ update the image Aug 3
Update macOS image in travis Aug 3
Remove RPM build script that we have no idea if it works Aug 3
use larger keys in ssl tests Aug 3

fixes #263 -- remove printk indirection Aug 29
fixes #264 -- make our flags naming more consistent Aug 28
bumped nightly rust version in travis Aug 28
fixes #30 -- remove explicit enumeration of types/functions/vars Aug 9
rustup Aug 9
Attempt to get the type correct on this attribute Aug 9

Different day, different black Aug 27
remove page-size wizard nonsense now that the wheel buidler is fixed Aug 25
Update .travis.yml Aug 18
try gravitron2 arm64 Aug 18
Simplify code in the wheel builder Aug 15
lock old issues Aug 14

Bump the kernel module lib Aug 11
Really interact with the device Aug 9
Verify that justuse is in /proc/devices Aug 9

gravitron arm64 Aug 18
lock old issues Aug 14

Fix building for musl libc (alpine linux) Aug 17
Update travis CI for python 3.8 release Aug 2

[libyaml] use an email with a google account Aug 14
Added additional libyaml maintainers Aug 14

test on go 1.15 Aug 28

renumber this as 0 so the assign ID script handles it Aug 21

build aarch64-musl host compiler in CI Aug 20

Added Rust to the build image Aug 17

Test against Go 1.15 in CI Aug 16

Make the twisted tests work when pyOpenSSL deletes NPN Aug 4

update docs to not use backends Aug 29
bump version for 3.2 dev Aug 27
3.1 release Aug 27
new black, actually slightly different than the old black Aug 27
Build manylinux wheels (including aarch64) with Zuul Aug 27
remove keywords with side effects hack in setup.py Aug 25
add some words about separating ECDH and ECDSA Aug 24
document that we auto-chunk on symmetric cipher contexts now Aug 24
chunked update_into Aug 24
Docs testing Aug 17
refactor wheel builder to use workflows and download/build separately Aug 16
be consistent in our testing Aug 16
use _get_backend everywhere Aug 16
update submitting patches docs to be a bit more true Aug 16
move encoders into backend as well Aug 15
move the x509 parsers into the backend object Aug 15
HOTP and TOTP should also have optional backends Aug 15
get rid of xenial builder on arm64 Aug 15
add changelog and update backend docs for optional change Aug 15
generate unrecognizedextension when failing to parse Aug 15
improve CI speed by removing some macos builders Aug 15
make backend arg optional for rsa Aug 15
optional backend for dh, dsa, ec Aug 15
optional backend for hash, cipher, cmac, hmac, keywrap Aug 15
make backend optional in serialization Aug 15
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Fix markdown links in README Aug 27
Add RCU read bindings (#143) and each_process() iterator Aug 22
tests: Move device-node code into testlib Aug 21
Mark modinfo variables #[used] (fixes #251) Aug 19
build.rs: Auto-generate all kernel_x_y_0_or_greater cfgs Aug 16
Kbuild: Always rerun Cargo, trust Cargo to no-op if nothing changed Aug 15
build.rs: Rerun if helpers.c has changed Aug 14
Go back to using KDIR to find the kernel sources (fixes #243) Aug 13
file_operations: Restore copy_file_range Aug 11
Remove kernel-cflags-finder (fixes #191) Aug 11
Add backwards compatbility down to kernel 4.4 (fixes #199) Aug 11
Run cargo clippy from inside Kbuild Aug 11
Make modinfo work properly (fixes #80) Aug 10
Unpin bindgen and use `--size_t-is-usize` Aug 9
kernel-cflags-finder: Set CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG=y Aug 9

travis.com now Aug 19
focal time Aug 5
remove npn support entirely. you should be using alpn Aug 4
use SSLv23_METHOD so we get "best TLS" in most tests. Aug 4
use modern message digests Aug 3
newer pypy Aug 3
update cert fixtures and simplify tests Aug 3
make our CI less frustrating Aug 3

new black, not quite the same as the old black Aug 27
simplify test matrix Aug 14
deprecate 2.7 without breaking windows builders Aug 14
Revert "deprecate python 2.7 (#616)" Aug 14
deprecate python 2.7 Aug 14

Run go mod tidy Aug 14
Bump github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go from 1.19.0 to 1.19.1 Aug 14
Run go mod tidy Aug 7
Bump github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go from 1.17.0 to 1.19.0 Aug 6

Refactor the mutable slices to improve readability Aug 16
typo Aug 11

One time use project upload token Aug 28

[3.5] bpo-39603: Prevent header injection in http methods (GH-18485) Aug 24

Assigned RUSTSEC-2020-0031 to tiny_http Aug 21

Bump rustls from 0.18.0 to 0.18.1 Aug 17

Add pipe support Aug 5

Created an issue in pyca/cryptography that received 27 comments

Feedback on adopting Rust code

We are looking into including Rust code in pyca/cryptography (see #5357). This will be done using PyO3, and thus it requires #5359 to be completed …

27 comments

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ioctl support Aug 10
poll support Aug 10
Run the smoke tests under a test framework Aug 9

Null-dereference READ · LibRaw::parse_ciff Aug 25

Provide pre-build host compiler for aarch64-unknown-linux-musl Aug 19

PyO3 doesn't build on musl targets (Alpine linux) Aug 16

Add Rust to the docker image? Aug 16

Add poll to FIleOperations Aug 9

Specify --target automatically based on which python is in use? Aug 6

213 contributions in private repositories Aug 3 – Aug 28

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