About Me

Hi!

Currently, I happily work on BIND9 and do my cryptography PhD.

For cryptography, I currently work on polynomial optimizations for lattice-based systems.

I use they/them pronouns, you can query it over DNS!

$ dig TXT mercan.dev

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> TXT mercan.dev
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52090
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mercan.dev.			IN	TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mercan.dev.		180	IN	TXT	"pronouns=they/them"
mercan.dev.		180	IN	TXT	"v=spf1 include:spf.messagingengine.com ?all"
mercan.dev.		180	IN	TXT	"google-site-verification=FKw_xiQ7W0lcSht7KQL-9DvwP_QatviBLotjAaNqsGA"

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 144.122.199.90#53(144.122.199.90)
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 08 12:50:26 +03 2024
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 207