I’m a professional penetration tester and Ph.D student in Mathematics (specifically mathematical logic).

  • Very much into Hardware hacking
  • Bit of a thing for Malware
  • Mathematically trained and so inclined
  • Deep respect/love of cryptography
  • Somewhat of a requirement for coffee…

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NB - this blog is not for everyone. There are no comments, and I’m not suited to answering entry-level questions (I’m quite busy, and there are others better placed to answer them than me - I’m more of an ‘advanced study’ kind of person).

If you want to learn the basics properly, then sites like Graceful Security, run by the wonderful @HollyGraceful and challenge sites like Hack This Site are probably more up your street.

Maths for Hackers

There is a lot computer science owes to mathematicians such as Ada Lovelace, Charles Ba bbage, Emil Post, Alan Turing, Stephen Cole Kleene, et al. But much of the beautiful ma thematics of Computability Theory and other areas of Mathematical Logic are unknown to many in the area of computer science - and here I include hackers, makers, programmers, systems administrators, etc.

Also, much of the language of crytography is taken from mathematics, and used to bludge on those not ‘in the know’ about such things. Whilst these language games are being played, cryptography is having a real and tangible effect on people’s lives. It is time to open the subject up and create clear, concise descriptions of what is going on - accessible to as many people as possible, with only a minimal amount of effort.

Cryptography needs demystifying, and computability theory needs to be better known.

In Memoriam - Prof. S. Barry Cooper.