Patrick Favre
Software Engineer currently working as architect, backend dev, cloud engineer, IT ops rookie. Cryptography and security are my passions.
Education
Vienna University of Technology
Work
Lead Dev @ Senacor Technolgies
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GitHub Repositories
uber-apk-signer
A cli tool that helps signing and zip aligning single or multiple Android application packages (APKs) with either debug or provided release certificates. It supports v1, v2 and v3 Android signing scheme has an embedded debug keystore and auto verifies after signing.
Java • 1753 stars
Dali
Dali is an image blur library for Android. It contains several modules for static blurring, live blurring and animations.
Java • 1052 stars
bcrypt
A Java standalone implementation of the bcrypt password hash function. Based on the Blowfish cipher it is the default password hash algorithm for OpenBSD and other systems including some Linux distributions. Includes a CLI Tool.
Java • 451 stars
BlurTestAndroid
This is a simple App to test some blur algorithms on their visual quality and performance.
Java • 416 stars
armadillo
A shared preference implementation for confidential data in Android. Per default uses AES-GCM, BCrypt and HKDF as cryptographic primitives. Uses the concept of device fingerprinting combined with optional user provided passwords and strong password hashes.
Java • 276 stars
density-converter
A multi platform image density converting tool converting single or batches of images to Android, iOS, Windows or CSS specific formats and density versions given the source scale factor or width/height in dp. It has a graphical and command line interface and supports many image types (svg, psd, 9-patch, etc.) aswell as some lossless compressors like pngcrush.
Java • 244 stars
under-the-hood
Under the Hood is a flexible and powerful Android debug view library. It uses a modular template system that can be easily extended to your needs, although coming with many useful elements built-in.
Java • 217 stars
uber-adb-tools
A tool that enables advanced features through adb installing and uninstalling apps like wildcards and multi device support. Useful if you want to clean your test device from all company apks or install a lot of apks in one go. Written in Java so it should run on your platform.
Java • 155 stars
bytes-java
Bytes is a utility library that makes it easy to create, parse, transform, validate and convert byte arrays in Java. It supports endianness as well as immutability and mutability, so the caller may decide to favor performance.
Java • 150 stars
hkdf
A standalone Java 7 implementation of HMAC-based key derivation function (HKDF) defined in RFC 5869 first described by Hugo Krawczyk. HKDF follows the "extract-then-expand" paradigm which is compatible to NIST 800-56C Rev. 1 two step KDF
Java • 62 stars
id-mask
IDMask is a Java library for masking internal ids (e.g. from your DB) when they need to be published to hide their actual value and to prevent forging. It has support optional randomisation has a wide support for various Java types including long, UUID and BigInteger.
Java • 58 stars
indoor-positioning
A full-featured indoor positioning system that was developed during my master thesis. It has a javascript based rich UI and has a server-client architecture.
Java • 50 stars
planb-android
A crash recovery library for Android. It allows tracking and handling crashes with different rules for debugging and production.
Java • 34 stars
slf4j-timber
SLF4J binding for Timber - a logger with a small, extensible API which provides utility on top of Android's normal Log class.
Java • 26 stars
rocketchat-exporter
A simple script exporting chats from a rocket chat instance using the public REST API. Useful if no administrative access is possible.
Java • 24 stars
dice
A cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator cli tool printing in a wide variety of byte encodings (hex, base64,..) and for many programming languages (c, java, c#, php, etc.) using NIST SP800-90Ar1 HMAC-DRBG. Supports external seeding from various true random services.
Java • 13 stars
singlestep-kdf
Implementation of the single-step key derivation function (KDF) as described in NIST Special Publication 800-56C Rev1 supporting messages digest and HMAC.
Java • 9 stars
checkstyle-config
Global checkstyle config to be reused in different projects. These include my own personal rules so your milage may vary.
3 stars
bkdf
BCrypt based key derivation function to improve BCrypt as a cryptographic primitive for password hashing and key derivation
Java • 2 stars
mvn-common-parent
A maven configuration which can be used as a commons config parent for POM files
2 stars
website-dr-sel
A simple static website created with jekyll
SCSS
website-favre
The source for my private website powered by hugo a static code generators and typescript/node based CLI to fetch my content from various sites..
TypeScript
Skills/Languages
Java, Spring, Kotlin, Angular, Typescript, Docker
Currently learning
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