Crypto means cryptography
Yes, I read the Satoshi Nakamoto paper in October of 2008. I’m still not interested in that stuff.
I’m no mathematician and I definitely avoid implementing my own crypto but I have definitely been around and done a lot of work with implementing cryptography as a security engineer and architect.
I have been a crypto user since 1993 when I discovered PGP. Nowadays, I use GPG. You might find my keys on keyservers going back many years.
You can find my GPG public key fingerprint in google via email list archives from many years ago.
I read Schneier’s “Applied Cryptography” back in 1996.
I am a CACert assurer.
I have taken university classes on encryption and done the math manually on (very small) integers to implement RSA as well as prove that one time pads are mathematically secure (when properly implemented, of course).
I am on keybase.
I used dm-crypt and then LUKS to encrypt my servers and mobile devices.
Email me if you need an ssh pubkey to give me access to something.
I prefer GPG encrypted email. My GPG public key is as follows:
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2jAiRaMXHKMciY4=
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