My blog

Welcome to the ultimate, radical and uncompromisingly primitive pre-web1.0-style blog and website. Let's party like it's ~1993-1996.

Main topics: CS, math, reverse engineering, SAT/SMT solvers, cryptography, tinkering with *NIX...

The posts:

• Oracle zero-day vulnerability for sale (18-Sep-2025)
• [Crypto] Leaking IV in CBC mode (16-Sep-2025)
• Yet another explanation of the Quicksort algorithm (23-Nov-2019)
• [Linux] Simplest possible snapshot-style backups using rsync (16-Oct-2019)
• Cracking simple XOR cipher with simulated annealing (21-Jul-2019)
• Packing students into dorm using simulated annealing (28-Jun-2019)
• Make shortest cables in your rack using simulated annealing (27-Jun-2019)
• Generating Malbolge code using simulated annealing (26-Jun-2019)
• Worst sorting algorithm I ever saw: proving it using KLEE (25-Jul-2018)
• Cracking simple LCG PRNG (02-Mar-2017)
• Content-addressable storage (27-Sep-2015)
• Typeless programming languages (BCPL, B), C evolution and decompiling (08-Sep-2015)
• Fuzzy string matching + simplest possible spellchecking + hunting for typos and misspellings in Wikipedia (23-Jul-2015)
• Tweaking LLVM Obfuscator + quick look into some of LLVM internals (16-May-2015)
• Making C compiler generate obfuscated code (07-Dec-2010)

Old blogs

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