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# [From Encodings to XOR: Building the Foundations of Cryptography](https://anirudhan.hashnode.dev/transforms-and-fixed-xor?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Solving challenge 1 & 2 of Set - 1 Cryptopals

Mar 14 · 2 min read · anirudhan.hashnode.dev  
Updated Mar 20  
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From Bare Metal to BitBake: Engineering the Full Embedded Stack

I’ve spent my career traversing the stack: from toggling GPIOs to architecting high-concurrency systems with C++ Actor Frameworks. These days, I spend less time with a Protocol Analyzer and more time wrestling with BitBake and ISAR to build reproducible Linux distributions for networking gear.

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