# What Boussad Siamer Is Doing Now

Location: Mohammadia, Algiers, Algeria (DZ-16)
Website: https://boussad.siamer.xyz
Last Updated: September 2026

## 1. Algerian Baccalauréat (BAC) Preparation
Preparing rigorously for the Algerian Baccalauréat examination, which is the milestone for pursuing university studies in computer science and software engineering abroad.

## 2. Hardware & Cryptographic Protocols
Interfacing an ESP32-S3 over USB-Serial to act as a high-speed SPI bridge for a PN532 NFC controller.
Executing ICAO 9303 PACE (ECDH P-256 AES) and BAC (3DES) cryptography to decrypt biometric passports and national eID cards for hotel registry automation.

## 3. Information Retrieval & Web Search
Developing a ground-up web crawler and search engine in Go:
- Polite crawling adhering to robots.txt and domain rate limits.
- SQLite inverted indexing with BM25 text relevance scoring.
- Sparse matrix PageRank graph analysis using Python / SciPy.

## 4. Open Coursework
Completing modules in the University of Helsinki Open Courses (MOOC) for Cyber Security Base and Programming.