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This is Eli Baum’s personal website.
I am a PhD student at Boston University advised by Kinan Dak Albab. I work on building usable and secure tools for multi-party computation, and dabble in a few other flavors of cryptography.
posts
- the flavors of secure computation (19 Aug 2026, 676 words)
- amtrak website bug: corporate travel (19 Aug 2026, 358 words)
- around the world in a few weeks (25 May 2026, 52 words)
- perpetual cube calendar (12 Mar 2026, 717 words)
- [paper] orq: complex analytics on private data (16 Sep 2025, 571 words)
- q1/q2 2025 (16 Jul 2025, 37 words)
- computing pi from flipping coins (05 Apr 2025, 1118 words)
- snapshots from 2024 (10 Feb 2025, 9 words)
- on the incomplete redaction of sensitive information (24 Nov 2024, 1061 words)
- a wrigley mystery (04 Aug 2024, 1402 words)
- some notes on identity- and attribute-based encryption (02 Jul 2024, 1782 words)
- some notes on pseudorandom correlation generators (25 Jun 2024, 3183 words)
- [not so] fire computer (11 May 2024, 1515 words)
- a bad pseudorandom function (15 Mar 2024, 559 words)
- oblivious hokey-pokey (01 Feb 2024, 148 words)
- Low-power backscatter communications (30 Aug 2022, 250 words)
- Reverse engineering a Twine environment sensor (08 Aug 2022, 3697 words)
- The C Paradox (08 Aug 2022, 265 words)
- A cryptanalysis of Monk S4E8, “Mr. Monk and Little Monk” (20 Jul 2022, 879 words)
- why is ssh exposed on my router? (part 1) (28 May 2021, 2013 words)
- pandemic projects: tiny game of life (25 Mar 2021, 1501 words)
- LUKS decrypt over ssh (13 Dec 2020, 592 words)
- TOCAR: touch-sensitive digital synthesizer (04 May 2019, 887 words)
updated 19 Aug 2026 17:00 UTC