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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 3.9k 822
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 1.1k 94
fishinabarrel/fishinabarrel.github.io

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

HTML 6 10
topazproject/topaz

A high performance ruby, written in RPython

Python 979 87
letsencrypt-aws

Python 730 120

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

Contribution activity

February 2021

Created 52 commits in 4 repositories

Created a pull request in pyca/cryptography that received 6 comments

Added a unit test to protect against import cycles

+38 −0 • 6 comments

Opened 27 other pull requests in 3 repositories

pyca/cryptography

24 merged

Updates for our new main branch Feb 12
part 2 of typing x509 extensions Feb 11
fix a false positive from the latest clippy Feb 11
Start typing a bunch of stuff from x509 extensions Feb 11
forward port 3.4.4 changelog Feb 9
3.4.4 - backports, changelog, and version bumps Feb 9
Added a py.typed so mypy prefers us to typeshed Feb 9
fixed a circular import error (due to type hints) Feb 9
[3.4] Specify an MSRV in setup.py (#5789) Feb 9
Specify an MSRV in setup.py Feb 8
forward port 3.4.2 changelog Feb 8
[3.4] More aggressively point people at Rust version docs (#5782) Feb 8
More aggressively point people at Rust version docs Feb 8
include cargo in the docs for alpine Feb 7
Try to assist folks having issues with older pips Feb 7
fix macos target for wheel builder Feb 7
fixed manylinxu wheel builder for rust Feb 7
3.4 release Feb 7
correct buffer overflows cause by integer overflow in openssl Feb 7
Linker script is no longer required for building your own OpenSSL Feb 6
Added typing for a bunch of random stuff Feb 4
Use caching of rust artifacts in GHA Feb 2
Added typing for more of ciphers Feb 2
Added typing for a bunch of methods Feb 2

alex/rust-asn1

2 merged

PyO3/pyo3

1 merged

List pyca/cryptography in the README Feb 8

Reviewed 43 pull requests in 4 repositories

pyca/cryptography 35 pull requests

document how we should publish CVEs more rigorously Feb 12
Name: update get_attributes_for_oid return type Feb 10
fix signature of EllipticCurvePublicKey.verify() Feb 10
Bump libc from 0.2.85 to 0.2.86 in /src/rust Feb 9
port 3.4.3 changelog to master Feb 9
version bump, changelog already done Feb 9
docs docs docs Feb 8
link a lot more things, repeat advice in more places Feb 8
3.4.2 changelog and version bump Feb 8
[3.4] Remove setuptools_rust from install requirement (#5779) Feb 8
[3.4] Interface: Make annotation check optional (#5775) Feb 8
Remove setuptools_rust from install requirement Feb 8
Bump actions/cache from v2 to v2.1.4 Feb 8
remove faq entry that is no longer relevant and reorder Feb 8
forward port 3.4.1 changelog Feb 7
3.4.1 fixes and changelog bump Feb 7
update issue template with more words few people will read Feb 7
fix import cycle with asymmetricpadding Feb 7
reopen master for 3.5 Feb 7
port changelog and fix back to master for CVE-2020-36242 Feb 7
Bump ctor from 0.1.18 to 0.1.19 in /src/rust Feb 3
Bump libc from 0.2.84 to 0.2.85 in /src/rust Feb 2
rsa type hinting Feb 1
KDF type hinting Feb 1
add optional block_size to the HashAlgorithm interface Feb 1
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Rust-for-Linux/linux 4 pull requests

libkernel: remove leftover `extern crate` Feb 12
CI: use different nightlies again Feb 11
Migrate to the new stack probes option Feb 11
Add charp and some primitive param types Feb 1

hallowauth/hallow 3 pull requests

servo/servo 1 pull request

Update pip when building docker image. Feb 9

Created an issue in rust-lang/rust-clippy that received 5 comments

unnecessary_wraps complains about function wrapped by proc-macro

Lint name: unnecessary_wraps I tried this code: #[pyo3::prelude::pymodule] fn _rust(_py: pyo3::Python<'_>, _m: &pyo3::types::PyModule) -> pyo3::PyR…

5 comments

Opened 15 other issues in 1 repository

fishinabarrel/analysis

15 closed

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