NateLawson

1,409 karma · joined May 21, 2009

Root Labs (currently): consultant for design and analysis of embedded and kernel security, cryptography, and reverse engineering. https://rootlabs.com

Past companies:

- SourceDNA (founder): a web service that scanned binaries from the app stores, identifying the tools and libraries they were built with. We notified developers about security issues and tracked the market share of SDKs and developer tools.

- Cryptography Research (engineer): self-protecting digital content, differential power analysis, tamper resistance for ASICs. So many stories.

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NateLawson

Hints and Principles for Computer System Design (2020 Version)

A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 3: Case Studies in Copy Protection

Finding Every Vulnerable App in the App Store

Show HN: Wondering which SDKs are in iOS and Android apps & how they were made?

Assembly Routine for Realtime Decoding of Floppy Data

Fast and branchless line drawing routines

TACK: certificate pinning to solve the SSL CA problem

On the evolving security of password schemes

Daily Summary of Hacker News Daily

Guardrails: secure Rails apps by source translation

The Bad Business Decision Quote That Never Was (True Story of Bell Patent)

Even optimized memcmp leaks useful timing differences

A new direction for homebrew console hackers?

Analysis of the PS3 hypervisor exploit

I solved this encrypted BART ad. Can you?

How HAMs got me started in computers and electronics

H(m || k) also insecure, you really should use HMAC