aminoacid

Co-founder & CTO @confi_ai . ex engineer @ProtocolLabs. Previously founded @yasa and . Math on the side, always.

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

you can tell a lot about people by the way they behave when they deboard a plane

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

@HammerToe pretty stinkin cool stuff man :)

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

Progress :)

[Confidential AI @Confi_AI]

Teams in finance, healthcare, and working on privacy-sensitive tasks with AI get stuck with clunky on-prem workarounds.

Why? Because the only thing protecting their data in a cloud is a legal agreement. That’s not enough.

We're fixing that today with Confidential Agents. 🧵

[Confidential AI @Confi_AI]

This is what actually-private AI inference looks like.

Prompt encrypted on your device, decrypted only inside a hardware-attested enclave. Cloud, hypervisor, host OS, vendor: all see ciphertext.

Two places hold plaintext: your device and the enclave. Everything else is locked out by hardware.

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

@snowmaker i think this trust tradeoff can be heavily diminished with something like: https://t.co/bp8NRLbojG

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

@paulg @snowmaker trying to make this less hair stand up on arm with https://t.co/bp8NRLbojG

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

searching for a used bike in san fran all the listings be like:
- "great condition, just usual wear n tear. chain is fully rusted, need to change brakes, tire valve broken"
- "vintage 1970 {insert name}"
- $1.5k

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

fountain codes are a really cool construction for error decoding

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

Happy B Day to the legend <3

[Ken Ono @KenOno691]

Today is Maryam Mirzakhani’s birthday, a day to celebrate women in mathematics.

Her life and work remind us of the power of imagination, courage, and beauty.

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

https://t.co/Nq4g5RIEpp

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

released our pre print of Kettle, @Confi_AI's attested builds framework. Kettle is the most secure way to build your software and distribute it without re-inventing the builds pipeline. progress :)

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

@github can you please get your shit together. even linkedin is loading faster than your UI.

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

we've been now leaving PR comments in slack due to the github outages.

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

the github uptime problem is insane how have they not solved this yet

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

the 4th season of ted lasso is something the world really needs right now. cant wait to tear up and feel good about it

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

@badcryptobitch have you come across kagi? https://t.co/9J6wxIGjcx

[Confidential AI @Confi_AI]

PrivateClaw, the world's first e2e private agent backed by hardware encryption, launched today on Producthunt!

PrivateClaw is powered by the @Confi_AI stack.

https://t.co/ucI5PN21oh

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

one of the biggest annoyances with model upgrades is that it slightly changes the behavior of your skills

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

AI Agents are personal and personal means private. “Trust us” agent hosting is going away. PrivateClaw is privacy-first hosting for AI agents with hardware-backed verification. Proudly hosted on @Confi_AI

[PrivateClaw @PrivateClaw]

Your AI agents are running on someone else's computer.

And that someone can read everything.

Today we're changing that. PrivateClaw is live.

Privacy-first AI agent hosting. Hardware-verified.

https://t.co/xPgDz9HUbu

[aminoacid @ameanasad]

@kaepora is doing really awesome stuff :).

[Nadim Kobeissi @kaepora]

Announcing the preliminary program for Cedarcrypt — our inaugural applied cryptography summer school and conference, July 13–16, 2026 at the American University of Beirut - Mediterraneo in Paphos, Cyprus!

We've put together a program we're genuinely proud of — a pedagogical progression from accessible foundations to state-of-the-art constructions, featuring lectures, hands-on workshops, and research talks from leading voices across academia and industry.

The program spans everything from accessible foundations to cutting-edge research: Bart Preneel (KU Leuven) opens with a keynote, followed by deep dives into FHE with Emad Heydari Beni (Nokia Bell Labs), state-of-the-art hash-based SNARKs with Giacomo Fenzi (EPFL), and Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Tarek Galal (TU Berlin). Practitioners will hear from Zeke Hunter-Green how The Guardian built their anonymous whistleblowing system (CoverDrop + MLS), and a host of other guest speakers who will help attendees learn post-quantum migration strategies across lattices, isogenies, and codes, and get hands-on with threshold signing, MPC engineering, and constant-time programming — all in four days on the Mediterranean coast.

Organized in collaboration with the IACR, and hosted on Cyprus's Mediterranean coast — a UNESCO World Heritage city where you can step from a workshop on threshold signing straight to a seaside taverna.

Thanks to our generous sponsors — Electi, PQShield, Symbolic Software, Zama, and several anonymous donors — we're offering FULL SCHOLARSHIPS (travel + lodging) to students and early-career researchers, awarded on a rolling basis until funds are exhausted.

Graduate students, early-career researchers, and practitioners in applied cryptography: we built this for you!

Join us this July in sunny Paphos! Let's make this an inaugural event to remember!