Aydın Mercan (Jaiden)
mercan.dev
Aydın Mercan (Jaiden)
@mercan.dev
they/them or she/her

bind9 witch @ isc
cryptography phd @ metu

[at] jaidenmercan [at] treehouse [dot] systems on 🐘
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Denying trans kids puberty blockers is child abuse at best, but realistically it's torture.

Some simple cheap safe medicine could prevent them from needing to spend tens of thousands of dollars/pounds on treatments to partially reverse the changes to their bodies they never wanted.
December 5, 2024 at 4:32 AM
submitted my first talk abstract 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

hope it gets accepted
November 30, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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Welcome to all my new followers from the Starter Packs and what not. Here's a fun fact:

C2y has adopted C++'s rules for pointer arithmetic, making null + 0 a safe, non-UB, well-defined operation.

Similarly, we allow null pointer and 0 into all functions taking a pointer plus a size for input.
November 25, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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NEW EPISODE!

Signal is becoming post-quantum! Was the same-origin policy in web browers just a dirty hack all along? Did certificate transparency catch TLS interception?? Put this in your ears to find out!

securitycryptographywhatever.com/2023/11/07/P...
youtu.be/wM4BJn0eM3o
Signal's Post-Quantum PQXDH, Same-Origin Policy, E2EE in the Browser Revisted
We're back! Signal rolled out a protocol change to be post-quantum resilient! Someone was caught intercepting Jabber TLS via certificate transparency! Was th...
youtu.be
November 7, 2023 at 3:28 PM