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back at cloudflare (and other stuff)

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i'm back at cloudflare

I'm back in the Crypto team at Cloudflare's London office for the next ~3 months.

If you didn't already know I spent some time there last year working on a protocol for bypassing CAPTCHAs on a load of sites for Tor and VPN users.

(George Tankersley gave a talk

I'm not gonna miss the 3hr round-trip to commute to RHUL -- but I'm planning on checking eprint every day if this counts for staying on top of current research?

other stuff

  • I've been respiring; both during physical exercise and throughout periods of relative inactivity (e.g. sleeping/watching robocop).
  • Went to New Zealand, as promised, and presented work that I published with Carlos Cid at ACISP 2017. There were 7 people in the room.
  • Also, ran up a volcano at a pace indistinguishable from an average walk (check my strava.
  • Ruined (cryptographically) some work that I was doing with Martin Albrecht for about a year (lol). I only save cryptanalysis for my own work...
  • Celebrated the end of May, sponsored by Jeremy Corbyn.
  • Renewed my letsencrypt certificate for the charred remains of the raspberry pi that still clings to life in order to serve this website. I hear it's wailing death throes when the silence of night takes hold.
  • Sent my rhul laptop to an early grave via some sort of ssd fault. It had all my ssh keys on it and so I believe that I'm sort of fucked now.