Leon Becker
GitHub: github.com/beleon
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Writing
At blog.leonbecker.de I write
about manageable but capable software -- tools that stay small enough
to understand without giving up on being useful.
Software
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Stelae
-- a service that lets you edit WordPress in a private cloud and
publish the result as static HTML, so your live site has no PHP,
no database, and no attack surface.
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mdview
-- a native Wayland Markdown viewer written in C++17. It renders Markdown
files quickly without pulling in a GUI toolkit or browser engine, sitting
in the gap between terminal pagers like
less and
Electron-based viewers.
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Transfer
-- a Nextcloud app that adds "Upload by link" functionality,
letting the server download files directly from a URL. Originally created
by danth; now maintained by me.
Publications
The papers are published under my former name, Leon Sell.
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An Empirical Evaluation of Search Algorithms for App Testing
(2019), with Michael Auer, Christoph Frädrich, Michael Gruber,
Philemon Werli, and Gordon Fraser.
-- An empirical comparison of search algorithms for automated
Android app testing, holding the framework fixed to isolate the effect
of the search technique itself.
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C3S: Cryptographically Combine Cloud Storage for Cost-Efficient
Availability and Confidentiality (2018), with Henrich C. Pöhls
and Thomas Lorünser.
-- A scheme for distributing encrypted data across multiple cloud
providers to improve availability and confidentiality while keeping
storage costs reasonable.
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CryptSDLC: Embedding Cryptographic Engineering into Secure Software
Development Lifecycle (2018), with Thomas Lorünser, Henrich C.
Pöhls, and Thomas Laenger.
-- A software development methodology and architecture for
integrating cryptographic primitives into cloud applications from the
start, rather than bolting them on later.