I’ve said this before through various iterations, but some people work on cars, some build models, I write code to imitate an old cipher device from World War II. While I’ve named this code “PyNigm...

In a previous post, I explained the very broad mechanism of what to do to predict the Mersenne Twister pseudo-random number generator. I only posted the functions but never actually showed them in ...

I’ve always had some sort of weird nerdy interest in pseudo-random number generators. How is it that a computer, an object based solely on a deterministic approach to everything, can generate a num...

The title may be a bit exaggerated, but to be perfectly honest I feel that PExpect, the Python version of standard old Expect, is hardly ever mentioned in the many Infosec personalities I follow wh...

Here are some of the more “advanced” concepts of using Bash. This has more of a pentesting lean, since that’s kind of what I do. Still though, I’m sure a lot of people could take something out of t...

I use bash a lot. Say what you will of it, it’s a powerful shell. Sure I keep hearing that zsh is so much better, but I come from a system administrator background, so…while I think Zsh is neat to ...

OpenSSL is one of those applications that I use so often, but rarely do I ever recall what I’m supposed to do from memory. I’m always looking it up or eventually copying down some of the more frequ...