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Sometimes doing a startup is updating all your #APPLE products because a #critical #security #update
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Sometimes doing a startup is a boondoggle related to Fortuna, the CSPRNG. The cart apparently goes AFTER the horse.
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Sometimes doing a startup means dealing with federal regulations. As they say, “compliance is to be complied with”. This is not legal advice. #startup #buildinpublic #law #regulations
#NSF pitch proposal finished for tomorrow’s review. Fingers crossed. #startup #buildinpublic #isthisreallyhappening
Spent much of my weekend finishing my sttr nsf phase I pitch proposal. I’m having a review on tuesday with a grant professional. I’m giddy with excited. #startup #buildinpublic #AcademicTwitter
Today’s progress: not much software, but I wrote my 3 pager to start the NSF SBIR process. I don’t want to jinx it, but I feel like I crushed it :). #entrepreneur #startup #buildinpublic #nsf #sbir
Another day, another few hundred lines written. Got the detatched validator debugged. It’s kind of exciting when you see your thing work and you are certain it’s not bullshit. #startups #buildinpublic btw, looking for us based cybersec business #cofounder.
500 lines of code written and read a ton of federal regulations. Looks like I am in scope for export authorization required, classification 5A002.c. I thought getting the algorithm to work would be the hard part, oops.
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Today consumed entirely by reading the federal regulations that might apply to my startup. Looks like they totally do, and it's going to be an onerous pain in the ass. Talk soon, ENC coordinator at Ft. Mead.....
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Well it’s going to take some exotic maths to achieve, but it’s looking like I should be able to get signature generation time down to around the same as RSA with a 6144 bit key. It’s still slow, but you don’t get quantum robustness for free #startup #buildinpublic #cryptography
Got my new bug riddled, cert chain code integrated with the main system today. Generated new numbers, updated pitch deck, and sent it out to a few people. These “high output” days absolutely fly by. Does that happen to anyone else? #startup #entrepreneur #buildinpublic
Another big code day, like 1200 lines of fresh, hot, bug riddled code commited to my #pqc #cryptographic signature project. I think some folks might be very unhappy that some rando engineer did a thing you are supposed to need a PhD for. TLS here I come.
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I turned winternitz one time signatures into hundred times signatures today, verified. I’m starting to think #pqc #cryptography isn’t as impossible as people want you think. Wizard.
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Today, while validating my product, I found a hidden nasty bug. I'm pretty sure that I've figured out a quite elegant solution. I hope I'm running out of bugs tho...
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Ever get so deep into your #startup work that you mix up the day of the week? I woke up expecting it to be be Saturday, but I’m actually happy for extra day! #buildinpublic
I wrote a decent amount of code, did some market research, and polished up my pitch deck today. What’d y’all do? #buildinpublic #startup
Well, now that mvp status has been reached, I guess I have to work on my pitch deck. In my opinion, pitch deck writing is one the worst parts of #Entrepreneurship #buildinpublic
This is probably the most motivating thing I can show other #Entrepreneurs Start slow, do research, take incremental steps and before you know it, it works! #buildinpublic
#buildinpublic I think this is probably close to the final form of my 256 bitsec #pqc signature system. I now need some assistance validating my assumptions, any takers?
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