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What I'm focused on at this stage · Mohammadia, Algiers
1. Algerian Baccalauréat (BAC) Preparation
My number one academic priority is preparing rigorously for the upcoming Algerian Baccalauréat examination. Achieving top marks is my direct gateway toward pursuing university-level computer science and systems engineering degrees abroad.
2. Hardware & Cryptographic Protocols
Refining and documenting my Biometric eID Kiosk project:
- Interfacing an ESP32-S3 over USB-Serial to act as a high-speed SPI bridge for a PN532 NFC controller.
- Implementing PACE (ECDH P-256 AES) and BAC (3DES) cryptographic secure messaging defined by the ICAO 9303 standard to extract authenticated traveler biometrics into a Go backend.
3. Information Retrieval & Graph Ranking
Continuing development on my ground-up web crawler and search engine in Go:
- Polite multi-threaded crawling respecting robots.txt standards and domain rate limits.
- Inverted index storage with SQLite and BM25 relevance scoring.
- Sparse matrix PageRank calculation using Python / SciPy.
4. Open Coursework
Advancing through the University of Helsinki Open Courses (MOOC), specifically completing modules in Cyber Security Base (network defense, vulnerability discovery) and structured programming practices.
About this page
This is a /now page, inspired by Derek Sivers. It serves as a public declaration of current priorities, reducing noise and focusing on deliberate execution.