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Mert Torun, M.Sc.

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Germany

Sustaining reproducible, verifiable work

My work is 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. I hold an M.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering from TH Köln.

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. It also keeps the work 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 signed documents I issue
  • Hardware and instrumentation for security research and verification work

Featured work

  1. mtorun0x7cd/anti-skid-verification

    Working paper and research report, TH Köln, 2026: functional equivalence in retrofitted anti-skid systems. LaTeX sources of the paper, the report and the slides, the traceability data with its chec…

    TeX
  2. mtorun0x7cd/thesis-fentwums-container-extension

    Master's thesis, TH Köln, 2026: containerized execution environments for open-source binaries in OneWare Studio. LaTeX sources, the evaluation with harness and data, the pinned submodules, errata a…

    TeX
  3. mtorun0x7cd/raven-one-simulink

    Bachelor's thesis, TH Köln, 2021: password and keyless authentication. Raven One SimuLink, the RSA and MD5 simulator in C# written for it, errata and the version of record.

    C#
  4. FEntwumS/FEntwumS.ContainerExtension

    OneWare Studio plugin that runs FPGA toolchains (GHDL, Yosys, nextpnr, gmpack, Icarus, Verilator, SymbiYosys) inside containers without changing the user's workflow.

    C#
  5. mtorun0x7cd/template

    A GitHub repository template: README and citation skeletons, REUSE licensing, security and contribution notes, sponsor links, and pinned workflows that lint, validate and scan each repository.

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Recurring support toward certificate and domain renewals, the cryptographic foundation on which artifact signing and verifiable provenance depend.

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Recurring support that helps maintain bare-metal infrastructure for self-hosted, privacy-respecting services and the signing apparatus behind my commits, release tags and the documents I issue.

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Support across the full operating substrate of the work: infrastructure, cryptographic credentials, and the hardware and instrumentation on which security research and verification depend.