I'm thrilled to announce that after months of intensive work, the complete materials for my Applied Cryptography course at @AUB_Lebanon are now finished: both Part 1 (Provable Security) and Part 2 (Real-World Cryptography)! The scale of this project is, for me, unprecedented:

Looks like the website for our Applied Cryptography course at the @AUB_Lebanon is now the top search result on Google for "applied cryptography". The website now has over 200 visitors a day from all over the world, and AFAIK, the materials are being used in 5+ universities.

Robinhood Presents: Enter the Mainframe. Access point unlocked. Step inside.

This came in today.

Took clips of @AUB_Lebanon Commencement Ceremony! It was glorious. We sang the Lebanese Anthem, then @DrFadloKhuri started rapping Eminem's Lose Yourself. On the surface it's funny, but it signals a commitment to transgressive free intellectual expression.

Course website:

herbo cooked here

Very grateful for a fantastic first week teaching applied cryptography at the American University of Beirut!!! Great faculty, great students (55+!), and a wonderful institution all working towards spreading a new field in a community that's full of potential!

I made a fun little interactive page that explains how Diffie-Hellman works, and what small subgroup attacks are (i.e. why you need a prime order finite field), using clocks:

I recently built a microservice called "CedarNode" that instantiates a custom web server for my applied cryptography course website. The service monitors a Git repository, verifies commit signatures, selectively compiles LaTeX documents, and serves the resulting website, all

I made a video about my upcoming applied cryptography course:

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