1nfocalypse

GCC Contributor (C++26 Philox Engine). Cryptography enthusiast. Somebody let me yap at DEFCON once. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

Hi! Thank you for visiting my site!

I’m a hobbyist cryptographer and systems developer. I particularly enjoy PRNGs, international crypto, and deniable cryptography. Some things I’ve done:

  • Upstreamed Philox Engine to GCC’s libstdc++-v3 for C++26
  • Spoke at DEFCON 33 via the Crypto Privacy Village on PRNG design, use, and exploitation
  • Authored a survey also on PRNG design, use, and exploitation, including implementations and demos
  • Wrote the modern crypto track for a black badge CTF @ DEFCON 33 (“? Cube”)

Some things I’m currently doing:

  • Implementing a portable 128 bit unsigned type for Philox Engine in GCC
  • Authoring a survey of Chinese and Russian cryptologic standards + academic implementations
  • Tinkering with a new sender-deniable symmetric scheme
  • Cryptanalyzing Philox

Some additional things about me: I’m a bit of a cyberpunk nerd, and enjoy hardcore electronic genres. I’m a big fan of open source (particularly free) software, as well as privacy-centric projects like Signal. My primary languages of choice are C++ and Python, although I have written code in JavaScript, Java, Haskell, C, and R besides that. I’m also interested in numerics, and hope to contribute to libstdc++-v3’s header and the surrounding components once I've concluded work for Philox Engine. It's also my solemn duty to shill Void Linux whenever possible, so consider that part accomplished.

Greetz:

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