User:Skintigh
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Education/work
- BS in Electrical Engineering with minors in Computer Science and Physics
- MS in Electrical Engineering, concentration in Cryptograph and infosec.
- 26 years industry experience, 22 or so in cybersecurity
- Currently senior hardware security engineer at Amazon: Prime Air drones
I break ciphers for fun
- I solved a newspaper ad from 1897/.
- I also cracked a KKK cipher from 1918, in the process becoming the first person to solve a level X cipher on mysterytwister where I was once ranked 3rd in the world despite starting years later than the leaders.
I've been designing and building planetariums/planetaria/"orrerys"/"orreries"
- Heliocentric "Impossible Planetarium" with no nested axles at all and no visible moving parts.
- Solution for Antikythera mechanism with no extra nested axles (vs 11-way nested axle)
- Solution for Antikythera mechanism with even less gears and no extra nested axles
- Lego Eudoxus of Cnidos model
I hack all the things
- First remote code execution over the air via magnetic waves: Defcon talk
- 1 CVE for that (submitted by ???), 2 more (by me) in limbo since 2022
- Denied CVE for Canon Digital Photo Professional heap overflow
- Denied 6-8 CVEs in Cisco VoIP equipment