Next week, almost everyone with a stake in or an opinion on IT security will be in San Francisco for the annual
RSA Conference
.
I will be there as well, and although
Virus Bulletin
doesn’t have a booth at the event, I am looking forward to meeting old and new friends and discussing
our tests
,
our upcoming conference
, or simply the state of security in general.
I will also be giving a talk at
RSA
:
How Broken Is Our Crypto Really?
. In the 50-minute talk, I will look at a number of cryptographic protocols that have supposedly been broken in recent years (including RC4, SSLv3 and SHA-1). By looking at how the attacks against these protocols work, I will try to answer the question: what does “broken” mean in these cases?
While
RSA
is often seen as a marketing event — and if the number of PR emails I’ve received over the past few weeks are anything to go by, I would say that indeed it partly is — there are many interesting and often quite technical talks on the show’s
agenda
.
But for more technical security content,
BSides
San Francisco
, which is held on the Sunday and Monday before
RSA,
is the place to be.
I will also be giving a talk at
BSides
:
Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Those Who are Afraid of Mathematics
. The talk will be a non-technical introduction to the fascinating and relevant subject of elliptic curve cryptography.
Do say hello if you see me in San Francisco — or
drop me an email
if you’re going to be there and want to chat.
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