Awn Umar

Awn Umar

Security Engineer in London, United Kingdom

About

Programmer and problem solver with an interest in security and cryptography. I like to design simple solutions for complex problems.

Projects

Ongoing

Secure software enclave for storage of sensitive information in memory.

Ongoing

Modular proxy tunnel that encapsulates traffic within a cover protocol to circumvent censorship.

Ongoing

User-space data encryption utility with a focus on plausible deniability.

Ongoing

Web-based end-to-end encrypted multi-party chat server.

Writing

2021

Explore widely used network traffic fingerprinting and obfuscation techniques. Introduce a modular proxy tunnel framework and evaluate it against state-of-the- art DPI engines and a nation-state adversary.

2020

Overview of the concept of plausible deniability as a security property, exisyting software that attempts to implement it, and the design and evaluation of a new protocol.

2020

An introduction to minimal surfaces and their relation to soap films, and some ways that they can be created.

2019

A write-up justifying the design and implementation of the encrypted in-memory data storage system in MemGuard.

2019
Bristol, UK

Explaining the design and development of the encrypted in-memory data storage system in MemGuard.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
2020 — Now
Founding Director at RedLayers
United Kingdom
2018 — 2020
Software Engineer and Project Manager at Freelance
Remote
2020 — 2020
2019 — 2019
2016 — 2018
Bug Bounty Hunter (Cyber Security) at Freelance
Remote

Contact

Website
GitHub
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