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Research, technical writing, and things I’ve learned along the way.

The One Hit Wonder: Solving MIDHNP with Coppersmith

• 20 min read

How I was the only solve on The One Hit Wonder by recognizing a Modular Inversion Double Hidden Numbers Problem (MIDHNP).

#cryptography#ctf#coppersmith#lattices#sage#mihnp#midhnp#number-theory

Building My First Bootable Kernel Pt. 1

• 11 min read

Notes from my first OSDev Bare Bones milestone: building a freestanding x86 kernel, packaging it with GRUB, debugging cross-compiler and ISO issues, and running QEMU over SSH with VNC.

#osdev#kernel#c++#x86#grub#qemu#cross-compilation#systems

Learning RBAC by Building SecureOps

• 12 min read

What I learned about role-based access control while building a Dockerized Go and PostgreSQL backend with JWT authentication, explicit roles, explicit permissions, permission-guarded routes, and audit logging.

#rbac#go#postgresql#jwt#backend-security#authorization#docker#audit-logging

HTB WordPress Skills Assessment Walkthrough

• 4 min read

A walkthrough of the Hack The Box WordPress skills assessment against the INLANEFREIGHT target, documenting enumeration, hosts-file DNS mapping, WordPress attack surface analysis, exploitation, shell access, and flag retrieval.

#hackthebox#htb#walkthrough#wordpress#web-security#penetration-testing#enumeration#dns#linux#shell-access

Beginnings to Research

• 2 min read

An in-depth look into Carmichael Numbers

#mathematics#research#number-theory#carmichael-numbers

New Website

• 2 min read

Celebrating the new launch of my website

#website#personal#announcement

Hello World!

• 2 min read

Introducing Zyphen

#personal#announcement#website