Welcome to my website!

My name is Sasha. I'm currently a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland working in cryptography.

Previously, I was an engineer on the Cryptography Engineering team at Meta for 2.5 years, and before that, I did my masters and bachelors at Cornell University.

Here are some links about me:

• My LinkedIn
• My GitHub
• Some papers I am a co-author on:
  • Purple Llama CyberSecEval: A Secure Coding Benchmark for Language Models
  • #1 on Hacker News for a few hours!
  • CanDID: Can-Do Decentralized Identity with Legacy Compatibility, Sybil-Resistance, and Accountability
  • Statistical Properties of Soft X-ray emission of solar flares
• Some other public-facing cryptography stuff I worked on at Meta:
  • How Meta built large-scale cryptographic monitoring
  • DNDK AES GCM, a new mode of operation for the AES cipher
  • Talk at RWC 2024
  • Draft RFC
  • Meta's updates at RWPQC 2024
• You can contact me at sasha (at-sign) sasha (period) place

Some hobbies I do are hiking, cycling, stand-up comedy and editing Wikipedia.

When I have an idea for some blog posts, I'll also put up a blog on here.