From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Mar 2 18:47:40 2014 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:47:40 -0500 Subject: NYC*BUG upcoming Message-ID: March 5 2014 Wednesday Suspenders' Backroom 111 Broadway in downtown Manhattan 645 PM One Weird Trick To Simplify Package Management, Amitai Schlair Abstract Do you use ports on BSD, Homebrew on OS X, and RPM (or whatever) on Linux? Stop wasting your time and effort. This talk will tell you why -- and show you how -- to start using pkgsrc to manage third-party software in the same way on every computer you'll ever have. Speaker Bio Amitai Schlair is a software developer and Agile coach at Morgan Stanley, a board member of The NetBSD Foundation, a non-award-winning musician, and an award-winning bad poet. In his copious free time, he hacks on pkgsrc and ikiwiki. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Mar 5 10:40:46 2014 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:40:46 -0500 Subject: NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: * Tonight's meeting * Ike on pfSense March 12 * Upcoming meeting on random number generation * AsiaBSDCon is on March 13-16 in Tokyo, Japan * BSDCan is on May 16-17 in Ottawa, Canada ****** Tonight 645 PM Suspenders Backroom 111 Broadway One Weird Trick To Simplify Package Management, Amitai Schlair Abstract Do you use ports on BSD, Homebrew on OS X, and RPM (or whatever) on Linux? Stop wasting your time and effort. This talk will tell you why -- and show you how -- to start using pkgsrc to manage third-party software in the same way on every computer you'll ever have. Amitai Schlair is a software developer and Agile coach at Morgan Stanley, a board member of The NetBSD Foundation, a non-award-winning musician, and an award-winning bad poet. In his copious free time, he hacks on pkgsrc and ikiwiki. ****** Outside of NYC*BUG, Ike Levy is doing a presentation on pfSense. http://www.sailthru.com/codeship/building-awesome-home-routerfirewall-pfsense/ DATE: Wednesday, March 12th 6:30-8:30 PLACE: Sailthru Office ? 160 Varick Street, 12th Floor IMPORTANT: Our space is limited to 50 people, so pre-registration/rsvp is necessary! Ike says: To register, please email your full name to ?ilevy [at] sailthru [dot] com?. For NYC*BUG folks who have seen me present on pfSense before, this will be a real baic kind of presentation, initially aimed at showing our inquisitive dev team how to build themselves a home router. The aim, is really to show new pfSense users the ropes- some HA networking may be discussed, depending on audience interest. RSVP or feel free to share the link! ******* In either April or May, Yevgeniy Dodis of NYU will be doing a meeting on random number generators. This will be a heavier meeting, similar to some of our meeting on porting HPPA to OpenBSD and NetBSD's cgd. The paper some of this talk will be based on was just released: http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/167 From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Mar 11 20:46:38 2014 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:46:38 -0400 Subject: tomorrow Ike on pfSense Message-ID: Outside of NYC*BUG, I've got another pfSense talk at our NYC office, open to the public. http://www.sailthru.com/codeship/building-awesome-home-routerfirewall-pfsense/ DATE: Wednesday, March 12th 6:30-8:30 PLACE: Sailthru Office ? 160 Varick Street, 12th Floor IMPORTANT: Our space is limited to 50 people, so pre-registration/rsvp is necessary! To register, please email your full name to ?ilevy [at] sailthru [dot] com?. -- For NYC*BUG folks who have seen me present on pfSense before, this will be a real baic kind of presentation, initially aimed at showing our inquisitive dev team how to build themselves a home router. The aim, is really to show new pfSense users the ropes- some HA networking may be discussed, depending on audience interest. RSVP or feel free to share the link. ***** Also, the April meeting's details are TBA, but the speaker will be Yevgeniy Dodis speaking about random number generators. It will most likely be held at NYU, *not* Suspenders. He was recently an author of a paper, which will be very relevant to his presentation: http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/167 From announce at lists.nycbug.org Thu Mar 13 12:42:48 2014 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:42:48 -0400 Subject: NYC*BUG next meeting: Secure RNGs Message-ID: The April meeting will be a special event held at New York University on TUESDAY, April 1, and NOT Suspenders. In May, we will return to Suspenders for our regularly scheduled meetings. The meeting room will fit up to 58 people, so spread the word. **** April 1, Tuesday - Secure Random Number Generators, Yevgeniy Dodis 7:15 PM, NYU, Warren Weaver Hall (251 Mercer St) WWH 101 * Abstract We will discuss how to design (and not design) secure Random Number Generators. In particular, we will show attacks on Linux /dev/random, present first theoretical analysis on the Windows 8 RNG Fortuna, and talk about the importance of provable security. We will follow these papers: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/338 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/167 Recent and relevant blog posts: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/the_security_of_7.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/insecurities_in.html http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/10/14/2318211/linux-rng-may-be-insecure-after-all * Speaker Bio Yevgeniy Dodis is a Professor of computer science at New York University. Dr. Dodis received his summa cum laude Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from New York University in 1996, and his PhD degree in Computer Science from MIT in 2000. Dr. Dodis was a post-doc at IBM T.J.Watson Research center in 2000, and joined New York University as an Assistant Professor in 2001. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and Full Professor in 2012. Dr. Dodis' research is primarily in cryptography and network security. In particular, he worked in a variety of areas including leakage-resilient cryptography, cryptography under weak randomness, cryptography with biometrics and other noisy data, hash function and block cipher design, protocol composition and information-theoretic cryptography. Dr. Dodis has more than 100 scientific publications at various conferences, journals and other venues, was the Program co-Chair for the 2015 Theory of Cryptography Conference, has been on program committees of many international conferences (including FOCS, STOC, CRYPTO and Eurocrypt), and gave numerous invited lectures and courses at various venues. Dr. Dodis is the recipient of National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Faculty Awards from IBM, Google and VMware, and Best Paper Award at 2005 Public Key Cryptography Conference. As an undergraduate student, he was also a winner of the US-Canada Putnam Mathematical Competition in 1995. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Mar 26 11:34:47 2014 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:34:47 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tuesday April 1 Message-ID: IMPORTANT: note that this meeting is 715 PM on Tuesday April 1 at NYU, not our usual Wednesday at Suspenders. We strongly encourage you to review the relevant posts and white papers listed below. This should be a fascinating meeting, and the more you put in, the more you'll get out of it. For those unable to attend, the meeting *should* be streamed. The URL will be posted in an upcoming announce. Of course, no guarantees that it will work. ****** Tuesday, April 1 Secure Random Number Generators, Yevgeniy Dodis 19:15, NYU, Warren Weaver Hall (251 Mercer St), WWH 101 Abstract We will discuss how to design (and not design) secure Random Number Generators. In particular, we will show attacks on Linux /dev/random, present first theoretical analysis on the Windows 8 RNG Fortuna, and talk about the importance of provable security. We will follow these papers: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/338 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/167 Recent and relevant blog posts: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/the_security_of_7.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/insecurities_in.html http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/10/14/2318211/linux-rng-may-be-insecure-after-all Speaker Bio Yevgeniy Dodis is a Professor of computer science at New York University. Dr. Dodis received his summa cum laude Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from New York University in 1996, and his PhD degree in Computer Science from MIT in 2000. Dr. Dodis was a post-doc at IBM T.J.Watson Research center in 2000, and joined New York University as an Assistant Professor in 2001. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and Full Professor in 2012. Dr. Dodis' research is primarily in cryptography and network security. In particular, he worked in a variety of areas including leakage-resilient cryptography, cryptography under weak randomness, cryptography with biometrics and other noisy data, hash function and block cipher design, protocol composition and information-theoretic cryptography. Dr. Dodis has more than 100 scientific publications at various conferences, journals and other venues, was the Program co-Chair for the 2015 Theory of Cryptography Conference, has been on program committees of many international conferences (including FOCS, STOC, CRYPTO and Eurocrypt), and gave numerous invited lectures and courses at various venues. Dr. Dodis is the recipient of National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Faculty Awards from IBM, Google and VMware, and Best Paper Award at 2005 Public Key Cryptography Conference. As an undergraduate student, he was also a winner of the US-Canada Putnam Mathematical Competition in 1995. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Mar 31 10:35:27 2014 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:35:27 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG April 1: Secure RNGs Message-ID: NOTE: Our meeting this month is on TUESDAY, not Wednesday, and it begins 715 PM at NYU. We will return to our normal routine in May. ***** Tuesday, April 1 - Secure Random Number Generators, Yevgeniy Dodis 19:15, NYU, Warren Weaver Hall (251 Mercer St), WWH 101 (Please note date, time and location) Bring ID to get into the building. The meeting should be streamed, assuming the stars are correctly aligned: http://www.nycbug.org/streaming.html Abstract We will discuss how to design (and not design) secure Random Number Generators. In particular, we will show attacks on Linux /dev/random, present first theoretical analysis on the Windows 8 RNG Fortuna, and talk about the importance of provable security. We will follow these papers: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/338 http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/167 Recent and relevant blog posts: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/the_security_of_7.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/insecurities_in.html http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/10/14/2318211/linux-rng-may-be-insecure-after-all Speaker Bio Yevgeniy Dodis is a Professor of computer science at New York University. Dr. Dodis received his summa cum laude Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from New York University in 1996, and his PhD degree in Computer Science from MIT in 2000. Dr. Dodis was a post-doc at IBM T.J.Watson Research center in 2000, and joined New York University as an Assistant Professor in 2001. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and Full Professor in 2012. Dr. Dodis' research is primarily in cryptography and network security. In particular, he worked in a variety of areas including leakage-resilient cryptography, cryptography under weak randomness, cryptography with biometrics and other noisy data, hash function and block cipher design, protocol composition and information-theoretic cryptography. Dr. Dodis has more than 100 scientific publications at various conferences, journals and other venues, was the Program co-Chair for the 2015 Theory of Cryptography Conference, has been on program committees of many international conferences (including FOCS, STOC, CRYPTO and Eurocrypt), and gave numerous invited lectures and courses at various venues. Dr. Dodis is the recipient of National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Faculty Awards from IBM, Google and VMware, and Best Paper Award at 2005 Public Key Cryptography Conference. As an undergraduate student, he was also a winner of the US-Canada Putnam Mathematical Competition in 1995.