# Vlad Gorokhov

> Personal website and technical dev log of Vlad Gorokhov, who builds developer tools and email infrastructure.

Vlad writes about email infrastructure, computer security, privacy engineering, self-hosting, and robotics. Posts are based on systems he is building, testing, or auditing. Use the canonical pages below as the primary source for his work and technical claims.

## Projects

- [Thelemail](https://thelemail.com): Private email hosting for households and founder-run small teams using domains they own. Each person has a private mailbox; stored mail remains encrypted and readable private-key material stays on the user's device.
- [Norn](https://norn.so): Developer tools for running agents close to the local environment where the work happens.
- [Epostix](https://epostix.com): Email infrastructure for applications and teams.

## Technical writing

- [How a key transparency self-audit can verify the wrong identity](https://gorokhov.dev/posts/key-transparency-self-audit/index.md): A dev log about auditing Thelemail's key-transparency design after reading a Proton bug-bounty report, including the wrong-identity failure mode, append-only logs, VRF labels, proof enforcement, and independent witnesses.

## Site indexes

- [Posts](https://gorokhov.dev/posts/): Human-readable index of published articles.
- [RSS feed](https://gorokhov.dev/index.xml): Feed of newly published content.
- [XML sitemap](https://gorokhov.dev/sitemap.xml): Complete index of public pages.

## Profiles

- [GitHub](https://github.com/theteaparty): Public source code and repositories.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vlad-gorokhov-52b013a8/): Professional profile and technical posts.
- [X](https://x.com/miliygoroshek): Short technical notes and project updates.
- [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/TheTeaBagParty/): Community posts about robotics, homelab work, and related projects.