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Mert Torun, M.Sc.

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Cologne, Germany

Sustaining independent verification work

I am an IT Security Architect & Systems Engineer (M.Sc. Computer Science & Engineering, TH Köln) working on the verification and validation of safety-critical systems, enterprise infrastructure hardening toward Zero Trust, and cryptographic architectures for the integrity and authenticity of digital artifacts.

A premise of this work is that results should be reproducible and externally checkable. Sustaining that premise has a material cost: the infrastructure must be self-managed, the cryptographic credentials current, and the test hardware physically available. Sponsorship covers those running costs directly — the infrastructure, certificates and test hardware behind reproducible, independently verifiable work — and keeps it independent of platforms whose guarantees cannot themselves be audited.

What support funds

  • Self-managed, bare-metal infrastructure for self-hosted, privacy-respecting services
  • Cryptographic certificates and domain renewals underpinning artifact signing and the document verification portal
  • Hardware and instrumentation for security research and verification work
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A sustaining base of five monthly sponsors — enough to cover the recurring cost of self-managed infrastructure, cryptographic certificates and domain renewals, the foundations on which reproducible, independently verifiable work depends.

Featured work

  1. mtorun0x7cd/anti-skid-verification

    Two-layer verification methodology for safety-critical FPGA rail retrofits: functional equivalence via VHDL simulation, hardware measurement, and scenario testing.

    TeX
  2. FEntwumS/FEntwumS.ContainerExtension

    OneWare Studio plugin that transparently routes FPGA/EDA toolchains (GHDL, Yosys, nextpnr, Verilator, Icarus Verilog) through ephemeral Docker/Podman containers with a native-host fallback, live co…

    C#
  3. mtorun0x7cd/template

    Reusable project scaffold: a tokenized README and meta-file family (CITATION, SECURITY, LICENSE, social preview) plus the CI, release, and secret-scanning workflows.

    Shell

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