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pyca/cryptography

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

Python 3.1k 666
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?"

25.2k 1.8k
fishinabarrel/linux-kernel-module-rust

Framework for writing Linux kernel modules in safe Rust

Rust 579 37
fishinabarrel/fishinabarrel.github.io

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

HTML 5 6
topazproject/topaz

A high performance ruby, written in RPython

Python 961 82
letsencrypt-aws

Python 732 112

3,146 contributions in the last year

Activity overview

Contributed to pyca/cryptography, alex/otp-cop, fishinabarrel/linux-kernel-module-rust and 5 other repositories

Contribution activity

December 2019

alex/openssl-src-rs Rust Dec 24
alex/line-counter Rust Dec 23
alex/raqote Rust Dec 18
alex/xlsx Go Dec 17
alex/net2-rs Rust Dec 17
alex/rust-subprocess Rust Dec 4

Created a pull request in jrmuizel/raqote that received 6 comments

Small refactor in blitter.rs to remove unsafe blocks

I wasn't sure if these were for performance (to avoid bounds checks), but in the absence of a comment to that effect I think removing the unsafe wa…

+7 −9 • 6 comments

Update for ChromeOS M79 Dec 19
Update for Android December security update Dec 10

Fixed apparent typo in the readme Dec 24

Update for new alpine release Dec 21

Fixed an apparent typo in a comment Dec 17

Drop support for Python 3.4, since cryptography dropped it Dec 14

Fuzzer for avahi's core DNS parser Dec 9

Bump crossbeam-utils to 0.7 Dec 4

Add pthread linking on non-win32 Dec 23
Use literals for collections and comprehensions. Dec 22
drop python 3.4 support Dec 9
Use dict literals. Dec 2

Re-enable rustls Dec 18

drop python 3.4 Dec 9

test only py27/38 on mac Dec 6

Created an issue in rust-lang/log that received 8 comments

0.4.9 release seems to break tokio (which depends on log)

You can see an example of this here: https://github.com/alex/otp-cop/pull/374/checks?check_run_id=349720268 I didn't see a mention of breaking chan…

8 comments

Comment for Request.version doesn't make sense Dec 25

Include code to easily connect RDS IAM authentication to a database/sql.DB Dec 23

When multiple of the same cargo package are used, dependabot doesn't try to update all of them Dec 22

Documentation link on crates.io goes to a 404 Dec 17

118 contributions in private repositories Dec 2 – Dec 23

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