From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Aug 2 08:37:31 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:37:31 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Message-ID: <4C56BC0B.5070009@ceetonetechnology.com> Upcoming Meetings NYCBSDCon 2010 Status * * * * August 04, 2010 Ivan Ivanov on Examples in Cryptography with OpenSSL 6:45 pm, Suspenders Restaurant 111 Broadway in Manhattan OpenSSL is an ubiquitious SSL/TLS implementation and cryptography toolkit. It is widely used to manipulate keys and certificates for servers and clients and there are a lot of tutorials on how to use it from the command line. This presentation attempts to go deeper into OpenSSL`s library and give an overview of its API. It will show how to programmatically calculate one-way hashes, perform symmetric and asymmetric encryption and create and verify message authentication codes and digital signatures. The concrete examples will include DES and AES ciphers, RSA and DSA encryption and decryption, Diffie-Hellman key exchange and a simple SSL-enabled application. Some particular algorithms can also be described in more details along with their mathematical properties if time permits but the presentation will be mostly example-driven. Ivan Ivanov is a software developer currently based in New York. His interest in cryptography comes from his mathematical education. In his professional work he has developed encryption and decryption routines for protecting data transmission over the network. September 1: Bruno Scap and Building Email Infrastructure * * * * NYCBSDCon will be held November 12-14, 2010 at Cooper Union. The NYCBSDCon Call for Presentations is closed. August 15: Accepted submissions will be announced. September 15: Registration opens. We are proud to announce that Cooper Union's IEEE and ACM are both on board for not just sponsoring the conference, but also for actively building the event. But there's a lot more to do, so make sure you're subscribed to the NYCBSCon mailing list at http://lists.nycbug.org. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Aug 4 10:12:02 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:12:02 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG: Tonight Meeting and Upcoming Message-ID: <4C597532.1020205@ceetonetechnology.com> * Tonight's meeting is Ivan Ivanov on "Examples in Cryptography with OpenSSL" * NYCBSDCon meeting * BSD Certification Group Board of Directors elections * * * * * * August 04, 2010 Ivan Ivanov on Examples in Cryptography with OpenSSL 6:45 pm, Suspenders Restaurant, 111 Broadway in Manhattan OpenSSL is an ubiquitious SSL/TLS implementation and cryptography toolkit. It is widely used to manipulate keys and certificates for servers and clients and there are a lot of tutorials on how to use it from the command line. This presentation attempts to go deeper into OpenSSL`s library and give an overview of its API. It will show how to programmatically calculate one-way hashes, perform symmetric and asymmetric encryption and create and verify message authentication codes and digital signatures. The concrete examples will include DES and AES ciphers, RSA and DSA encryption and decryption, Diffie-Hellman key exchange and a simple SSL-enabled application. Some particular algorithms can also be described in more details along with their mathematical properties if time permits but the presentation will be mostly example-driven. Ivan Ivanov is a software developer currently based in New York. His interest in cryptography comes from his mathematical education. In his professional work he has developed encryption and decryption routines for protecting data transmission over the network. September 1st meeting will be Bruno Scap on "Building Email Infrastructure." * * * * * * NYCBSDCon Organizing Meeting Monday, August 23, Suspenders at 111 Broadway We'll be holding another organizing meeting for the November conference. Agenda includes the following: CFP submissions, sponsors and registration We encourage all interested in taking part to attend and join the NYCBSDCon mailing list at http://lists.nycbug.org We are proud that the organizing for our conference is way beyond a handful of individuals. About a dozen people showed up at the last meeting, and we decided on a number of issues, including the schedule, organizing the 'birds of a feather' sessions, publicity, etc. Nothing makes a better conference than having a strong fraction of the attendees involved in the actual organizing. If you have any questions, contact info at nycbsdcon dot org. * * * * * * The BSD Certification Group is holding a Board of Directors election. The neutral election organizer is James Lane. Here's his announcement: "The nominees for the two open one-year positions on the BSDCert Board of Directors are: Jim Brown Michael Dexter Dru Lavigne Phil Nelson According to the Bylaws, the next step in the process is an open discussion of the election and the nominees by the general membership. This discussion will open as of Monday, August 2, 2010, and will remain open for two weeks. The last day of the discussion will be Monday, August 23. Each of the nominees is invited to post information about their general background, their involvement with BSD and with BSDCert, and what they would like the BSDCert group to accomplish over the next year. The next step in the election process is the election itself." Also, note that we'll be holding two BSDA certification exams at NYCBSDCon on November 13th and 14th, probably during the lunch sessions. Get your BSD Certification identification number here: https://register.bsdcertification.org//register/get-a-bsdcg-id And sign up for the exam here: https://register.bsdcertification.org//register/register-for-an-exam From announce at lists.nycbug.org Thu Aug 5 07:42:06 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:42:06 -0400 Subject: [announce] CORRECTION: NYCBSDCon organizing meeting date Message-ID: <4C5AA38E.80901@ceetonetechnology.com> The meeting will be held THIS Monday, August 9th (NOT the 23rd) at 645 PM at Suspenders at 111 Broadway in the backroom. We apologize for the error. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Aug 30 12:05:22 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:05:22 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Message-ID: <4C7BD6C2.3010404@ceetonetechnology.com> * Bruno Scap on "Building Email Infrastructure" September 1 * NYCBSDCon 2010 September 01, 2010 Bruno Scap on Building Email Infrastructure 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant 111 Broadway in Manhattan Organizations and individuals rely on e-mail, and while Google Mail and similar hosted solutions might be a good alternative, sometimes e-mail needs to be hosted in-house. The focus of this talk is building a reliable, scalable, and distributed e-mail infrastructure using open source off-the-shelf tools. Bruno Scap helps companies achieve greater business value from IT. He works with executives and top managers to maximize the business value from the computing technologies and services. He can be reached at bruno AT konjz DOT org. * * * * Registration for NYCBSDCon 2010 opens around September 15th. Accepted speakers have been notified, and the tentative schedule will be announced this week. www.nycbsdcon.org