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  • tl;dr sec

    Newsletter

    tl;dr sec is a weekly newsletter by Clint Gibler. The newsletter summarizes what’s going on the infosec world. The content covers a wide range of topics. I found out about it because Clint Gibler heads Security Research at semgrep and a very good friend of mine happens to work there.

  • Cryptopals

    Cryptography Challenges

    9+ years later, Cryptopals remains a tremendously valuable tool for learning about cryptography by working on practical pieces of code. Cryptopals is a collection of 8 sets of challenges, starting very gently and ending with some non-trivial problems. By working through these challenges you will implement various cryptosystems and well known attacks.