Hello, I’m Andrea, an ordinary Touhou fan. Nowadays I go by anri.

I’m a PhD student working on both theoretical and practical cryptography/multi-party computation, in particular subversion-resilience: the ability for a protocol to protect itself even if a malicious actor sabotages the algorithm run by a party. See the Dual EC-DRBG fiasco or the more recent xz backdoor for some examples.

Other than crypto itself, I also take interest in:

• Way too much Touhou.

• Doujin music and distributed programming.

• Some machine learning, with computer vision even.

• Emulators and similar low-level software.

• Game engines, rendering algorithms and similar real-time software.

• Not much about blockchains. One time I did cryptography-related algorithms for blockchains, that was fun.

• Some Telegram bots for the fun of it.

• Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2.

• Contributing to FOSS software. For example I contributed some packages to Void Linux.

  (Don’t tell them I used to maintain a fork with systemd enabled.)

• Neovim. I maintain a fork of nofrils and I wrote a plugin for lecture recording.

• Hand-rolled CSS.

• Infrastructure, sysadmin stuff and cybersecurity.

• Cooking.

• Bicycles.

In this little old-web island you’ll find my digital garden.