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WRITING

Things I write.

Security research notes, essays, and ideas — pulled live from my Medium. New posts show up here automatically.

01 FEATURED WRITING

POST-QUANTUM Jul 1, 2026

Building the Same Secure Channel Twice: Notes from a Post-Quantum Project

Why I implemented one encrypted channel with two completely different post-quantum families — Kyber + Dilithium on one side, HQC + SPHINCS+ on the other — and what attacking my own protocol taught me about crypto-agility.

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KERNEL Jul 1, 2026

Hunting Race Conditions in the Kernel Network Stack

Race conditions are the bugs coverage-guided fuzzers are worst at finding. Notes from RaceFuzz, the OSIRIS Lab project I lead: why the network stack is a concurrency minefield and what "semantic" fuzzing actually means.

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CTF Jul 1, 2026

What Writing a CSAW CTF Challenge Taught Me About Breaking Things

Solving challenges makes you a better attacker. Writing one makes you a better engineer. Lessons from authoring a challenge for one of the world's largest student-run CTFs — difficulty curves, unintended solutions, and infra at scale.

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02 FROM MEDIUM

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Longer essays live on medium.com/@lovekush.pranu — new posts show up here automatically.