My projects, all around
Here I try to keep an updated list of the projects I participate or participated in, in order to remember where I went, what I’ve done, and where I’m going.
ArchLinux
I use ArchLinux a lot, and in order to bring my contribution, I adopted some AUR packages. This allows me to learn more about maintaining packages, and compilation / installation / packaging topics. I mainly package binaries that I use for my PhD, as they are often new and not used a lot. Maintaining these packages allow me to quickly set up experimentation platforms based on Arch, as all the needed binaries are already packaged and up to date.
One day, I was working on LLVM and I noticed that the LLVM distribution of Arch (available in the extra repo) was out of date. This prompted me to become a Package Maintainer in order to help out with the official packages of Arch Linux, and by the same time promote the popular packages that I am maintaining in the AUR to official packages.
Teaching
As a PhD student I am sometimes teaching courses on various topics revolving around cybersecurity. I also taught a few courses to volunteer students as part of the HackademINT cybersecurity club. I make a point of open-sourcing the courses I give:
- Introduction to memory bugs and exploitation (2024, course for M2 students): course, lab and lab infrastructure (with related blog post)
- CI for security and security for CI (2024, course for M1 students): course and example project
- Wasm / WASI, a new binary format (2023, course for M2 students): course + lab
- Container breakout (2023, in French, HackademINT course): course and challenges
- Server Side Template injection (2022, in French, course for the Hackcess club): course and lab
Research
I was President of my school’s cybersecurity club (HackademINT) in 2021-2022, and I tried to make people aware of the importance of cybersecurity, and train those want how this attacks work. For this, we (me and the awesome members of the club) proposed a formation each Tuesday evening except during student vacations, with a different topic each time.
I also co-created the first edition of the 404 CTF, creating cybersecurity challenges for all levels and bringing them to thousands of people.
Open source
I try to be active and to help the open-source community as much as I can, with opening issues and writing Pull Requests if I know how to fix the bugs I find. This allows me to take part in the FLOSS community I love and support, and to learn a lot about different languages, good code practice and bug finding.