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We're a digital security and privacy awareness and conditioning shop based in the San Francisco Bay Area's Tri-Valley.

Born in the back of a Southern Appalachian coffee shop over a decade ago, we bolster security and privacy education through innovations in hands-on, interactive, and gamified curricula, focusing on aspects like applied cryptography, social engineering, intelligence gathering, elections integrity, misinformation campaigns, and operational security. We work in primary, secondary, and post-secondary classrooms, as well as industry and government.

The goal? Cultivating and empowering even better digital stewards and decision-makers -- ready to solve new problems and build better policy.

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An interactive tradecraft simulator of espionage and sabotage, integrating applied cryptography, operational security, social engineering, misinformation campaigns, and intelligence gathering. Coming in 2020.

Aesthetics of Cryptography
[Dec. 2019, NICE K12]

The aesthetics of cryptography explores the design of cryptographic primitives as a subset of product design, where design is driven by a tactile, visual approach. This allows core cryptographic concepts (e.g., S-boxes, key schedules) to be preserved in a way that is more approachable from a pedagogical standpoint, making it easier to bridge the gap between classical and modern cryptography, in the classroom.

• CRUX: cipher design strategy based on cryptography + user experience
• bantamweight cryptography: class of scaled-down, hand-held cryptographic primitives
• blockwise: visual design language for bantamweight primitives
• SignPost: human-readable pseudocode for sharing blockwise visuals
• PocketBlock: family of bantamweight block ciphers

Prior Foundational Work:

• J. Troutman, and V. Rijmen, "Mackerel: A Progressive School of Cryptographic Thought," ;login: 38(6), pp. 28-32, 2013.
• J. Troutman, and V. Rijmen, "Green Cryptography: Cleaner Engineering through Recycling, Part 2," IEEE Security & Privacy 7(5), pp. 64-65, 2009.
• J. Troutman, and V. Rijmen, "Green Cryptography: Cleaner Engineering through Recycling," IEEE Security & Privacy 7(4), pp. 71-73, 2009.

Virtual doors opening December 2019.

Want to partner with us, or simply start a conversation? Don't hesitate to reach out to our [email protected].