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Alex Gaynor alex

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 3.6k 771
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 1k 77
fishinabarrel/fishinabarrel.github.io

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

HTML 6 8
topazproject/topaz

A high performance ruby, written in RPython

Python 972 86
letsencrypt-aws

Python 730 118

4,327 contributions in the last year

Activity overview

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

Contribution activity

October 2020

alex/Early-Vote-2020G HTML Oct 15

Created a pull request in PyO3/pyo3 that received 10 comments

Merge master into abi3 branch, resolving conflicts

+223 −207 • 10 comments

Simplify a number of branches around libressl Oct 26
Delete all the 1.0.2 code Oct 26
Reopen master for 3.3 Oct 26
Attempt to mitigate Bleichenbacher attacks on RSA decryption Oct 25
Stop using @master for GH actions Oct 25
Add a dependabot configuration to bump our github actions Oct 25
bumped to latest libressl Oct 19
fixed twisted tests Oct 17
Update .travis.yml for 3.9 Oct 6
Update wheel buidler for 3.9 release Oct 6
Update CI for 3.9 release Oct 6
Update wheel builder for new GHA syntax Oct 2
Update windows CI for new GHA syntax Oct 2

Make get_free_list API sound Oct 18
merge master into abi3 branch to resolve conflicts Oct 12
Update environment setting for Github Actions API updates Oct 12
Assorted updates to the abi3 branch from review Oct 11
Improved documentation for abi3 Oct 11
Merge master into the abi3 branch to resolve conflicts Oct 10

switch to official github action for buildx Oct 25
Clean up versioning of GH workflow actions Oct 25
Update for new GHA syntax Oct 2

Satisfy clippy Oct 11
Update comments for new generation API Oct 8

[imagemagick] fixed cloning of freetype2 Oct 10
[graphicsmagick] fixed cloning of freetype2 Oct 10

oops Oct 2
Update for new GHA syntax Oct 2

fixed tests for twisted change Oct 14

Let dependabot update indirect deps as well Oct 11

Point people at the effort to upstream rust kernel modules Oct 4

Start migrating to acme_lib Oct 1

Make to_url public on DirectoryUrls Oct 1

Revert to upload-artifact v1 for manylinux Oct 26
3.2 release Oct 26
move blinding to __init__ on both RSA public and private Oct 25
be more verbose in the 102 deprecation notice Oct 25
make the regexes for branches more strict Oct 25
Bump actions/upload-artifact from v1 to v2.2.0 Oct 25
PKCS7SignatureBuilder now supports new option NoCerts when signing Oct 25
chunking didn't actually work Oct 25
allow additional certificates to be added to a pkcs7 Oct 25
PKCS7SignatureBuilder now supports three serializations Oct 25
migrate smime builder to pkcs7 module and rename Oct 24

Renew #[pyproto] implementation for abi3 branch Oct 24
Fix MSRV CI to correctly use MSRV Oct 12
Complete abi3 support Oct 11

Bump actions/upload-artifact from v1 to v2.2.0 Oct 25

Add EXAMPLE_ADVISORY.md Oct 22

Reading UUID from URL Ending Oct 21

bpo-41845: Move PyObject_GenericGetDict() back into the limited API Oct 19

Declare support for Python 3.9 Oct 14

Add exploit mitigations chapter to the rustc book Oct 14

Run go mod tidy Oct 2

Created an issue in sphinx-contrib/spelling that received 5 comments

sphinx failing with sphinxcontrib.spelling 6.0.0

Seen here: https://travis-ci.com/github/pyca/cryptography/jobs/401809478 Relevant bits of the log: docs run-test: commands[3] | sphinx-build -T -W …

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Firefox 82 Oct 23
oss-fuzz last week: 23 vulnerabilities Oct 21
Chrome 86.0.4240.111 Oct 20
Android October Security Bulletin - Qualcomm components Oct 14
Android October Security Bulletin - Media Oct 14
Android October Security Bulletin - Android runtime Oct 14
BleedingTooth: Linux BlueTooth vulnerabilities Oct 14
oss-fuzz last week: 29 vulnerabilities Oct 14
Memory Safe ‘curl’ for a More Secure Internet Oct 9
oss-fuzz last week: 21 vulnerabilities Oct 7
Chrome 86.0.4240.75 Oct 6

Personalized badge creator should URL encode text Oct 23

Prepare to change target logic Oct 13

122 contributions in private repositories Oct 1 – Oct 26

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