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Dad. Partner. Scientist. Activist. Maker. — He/Him Mastodon at @kiniry@mathstodon.xyz

Portland, OR
Joined February 2008
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AI-enabled cyber attacks are getting faster + going further. But what if AI-enabled formal methods could make high-assurance cyber defence practical at unprecedented speed + scale? We’re funding eight teams with £22m to test that idea. Meet them here: link.aria.org.uk/SAI-TA2-Cre…
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Great to see formal methods, Cryptol, and SAW getting a shoutout from @Apple at the HEXACON 2025 keynote! youtube.com/watch?v=Du8BbJg2…
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In November 2020, @SFWA came forward with a stunning accusation: Disney had told the beloved writer Alan Dean Foster (author of the original, bestselling Star Wars novelization) that they would not ever pay him the royalties he was owed. pluralistic.net/2020/11/19/d… 1/
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We're excited to announce our zero-knowledge proof contract with @DARPA as part of the Securing Information for Encrypted Verification and Evaluation (SIEVE) program. Learn more from @ArcherAtGalois, @overfull_hitbox, and Alex Malozemoff: buff.ly/35E9qux
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The 2020 Virtual Hardware Security Summit is next week! Galois Principal Scientist, @kiniry will be joining the Panel Session: Ask the Hardware Security Experts Your Security Questions on 9/15 at 1:45 PM PDT. Learn more: buff.ly/3hnpW4a
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The Princeton Election Consortium is pleased to unveil #Moneyball2020. We quantified voter power in legislative elections through the lens of redistricting - and Congressional power for a decade. The goal is balanced governance. Optimize your activism! election.princeton.edu/2020/…
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At 2 pm PDT today you can check out a live demo from Galois spin-out, @TryMuseDev, of their new platform. #DevOps #ContinuousAssurance
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Prefer not to be the one to ask the hard questions, but we have to talk about the elephant in the room. The Haskell Elephant in the Room stephendiehl.com/posts/crypt…
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We had a great 2019. This week, we're sharing some of the highlights of this past year at Galois in our Year in Review: galois.com/blog/2020/01/2019…
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We’re demonstrating secure hardware at the DEF CON Voting Village this week. @dmz explains: darkreading.com/vulnerabilit… @kiniry @DarkReading
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Today, the Voting Village is officially announcing Unhack the Ballot, a new initiative designed to connect local election officials who want help securing their systems with volunteers who have the skills to help.
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.@DemocracyFund and @nado1377 @gronke released its' comprehensive survey of #LEOs- or "Local Election Officials"-- This is the first public poll of LEOs since @librarycongress 's CRS released them last decade. Thread. democracyfund.org/publicatio… 1/x
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Very excited that @BPC_Bipartisan independently used Brandeis-funded @galois tech to demonstrate the utility of computation on encrypted information for better evidence-based policy analysis. This tech can be a powerful enabler to merge sensitive data. bipartisanpolicy.org/library…
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NEW on our blog: This #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re celebrating women who are making American democracy stronger. bit.ly/2FldWAM 1/11
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ICYMI: we're bringing our SSITH hardware defenses to the 2019 & 2020 @defcon Voting Villages! SSITH aims to demo that correctly constructed electronics can be a substantive part of a system’s security by limiting the impact of errors made within the software stack.
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It is 9am Swiss Time, @VTeagueAus, Olivier Pereira & I are releasing details of a cryptographic trapdoor that we found in the Swiss Post #evoting system that would allows admins to falsely "prove" mixes that alter votes & undetectably compromise elections: people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/vj…
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