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• 1 - Plurality - 2026-04-02

  Writing about our experience of plurality

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• UTCTF Galois. Remember kids, never repeat a nonce! - 2020-03-12

  A writeup for a nonce reptition attack on GCM mode

• BSides Ottawa crypto challenges writeup - 2019-12-02

  Writeups for some more crypto challenges, featuring a very classic symmetric crypto attack, the slide attack

• factorpy, what is it? - 2019-07-18

  My first toy language, 100% concurrent and 0% usable

• Google CTF 2019 Crypto challenges writeup - 2019-07-05

  Writeups for the three crypto challenges in google-ctf-2019

Recent posts

• 1 - Plurality - 2026-04-02

  Writing about our experience of plurality

• Wildsea sparknotes: The narrative mechanics - 2025-07-24

  All the stuff before we can roll dice

• Wildsea sparknotes: The world - 2025-07-24

  The setting, the flavor, all the good stuff

• Wildsea sparknotes: The dice mechanics - 2025-07-24

  All about dice rolling

• Day 2: Reading up on unikernels - 2025-07-14

  More scoping, doing some reading

• Exploring MirageOS - 2025-07-13

  Digging around MirageOS internals

• Day 1: Scoping out the project - 2025-07-13

  Figuring out the basics

• UTCTF Galois. Remember kids, never repeat a nonce! - 2020-03-12

  A writeup for a nonce reptition attack on GCM mode

• BSides Ottawa crypto challenges writeup - 2019-12-02

  Writeups for some more crypto challenges, featuring a very classic symmetric crypto attack, the slide attack

• factorpy, taking a break for now - 2019-07-26

  Otherwise known as 'Lily realizes that attempting to write an interpreter without any knowledge of how to write interpreters means you end up writing yourself into a dead end'

• factorpy, what is it? - 2019-07-18

  My first toy language, 100% concurrent and 0% usable

• Cryptopals sets 2,3,4 writeups - 2019-07-18

  Solutions for sets 2, 3, and 4 of https://cryptopals.com/

• A brief introduction to modern cryptography - 2019-07-13

  A lightning tour of the various primitives and tools in modern cryptography and why they exist

• How does Hakyll work? - 2019-07-11

  A few messy notes on how hakyll works underneath the hood

• Cryptopals Set 1 writeup - 2019-07-11

  Solutions for set 1 of https://cryptopals.com/

• Google CTF 2019 Crypto challenges writeup - 2019-07-05

  Writeups for the three crypto challenges in google-ctf-2019

…or you can find more in the archives.