From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon May 1 09:07:00 2017 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 13:07:00 +0000 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Message-ID: May 3, Wednesday Building Open Source Random Number Generators, Rob Seward 18:45, LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, Manhattan Many of our secure encryption systems depend on black-box closed-source random number generators. After the Snowden documents revealed that the NSA tried to undermine random number generation with the DUAL_EC_DRGB algorithm, there is renewed interest in using open-source hardware as a more secure way to generate random numbers. With this in mind I set out to manufacture an open-sourced design on a small scale as a means to disseminate knowledge about true hardware random number generation. In this talk I'll discuss some of the thinking behind my project http://www.openrandom.org. Speaker Bio Rob is an iOS engineer at Electric Objects. He has been fiddling with random number circuits for about 10 years. He also makes art. ***** Sevan writes about pkgsrcCon 2017 July 1 and 2 in London, England. "This years annual pkgsrcCon is being held in London on July 1st & 2nd. There will be a evening social event on 30th of June beforehand. On July the 1st, we will hold a day of talks at the British Computing Society[1] thanks to the Open Source Specialist Group. While the primary focus is on pkgsrc, the theme of the day is building and packaging open source software in general and the challenges we face. Details for general attendees will be available soon but in the meantime, If you would like to present a talk on such a theme, please send the title, slot duration (minimum of 15 minutes) and a brief description (for the web site) to sevan At NetBSD.org." BSDCan is June 9, 10 in Ottawa Canada https://www.bsdcan.org/2017/ EuroBSDCon is September 21-24 in Paris, France https://2017.eurobsdcon.org/ From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed May 3 14:59:00 2017 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 18:59:00 +0000 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight: Open Source RNGs Message-ID: Tonight! May 3, Wednesday Building Open Source Random Number Generators, Rob Seward 18:45, LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, Manhattan Many of our secure encryption systems depend on black-box closed-source random number generators. After the Snowden documents revealed that the NSA tried to undermine random number generation with the DUAL_EC_DRGB algorithm, there is renewed interest in using open-source hardware as a more secure way to generate random numbers. With this in mind I set out to manufacture an open-sourced design on a small scale as a means to disseminate knowledge about true hardware random number generation. In this talk I'll discuss some of the thinking behind my project http://www.openrandom.org. Speaker Bio Rob is an iOS engineer at Electric Objects. He has been fiddling with random number circuits for about 10 years. He also makes art. ***** Sevan writes about pkgsrcCon 2017 July 1 and 2 in London, England. "This years annual pkgsrcCon is being held in London on July 1st & 2nd. There will be a evening social event on 30th of June beforehand. On July the 1st, we will hold a day of talks at the British Computing Society[1] thanks to the Open Source Specialist Group. While the primary focus is on pkgsrc, the theme of the day is building and packaging open source software in general and the challenges we face. Details for general attendees will be available soon but in the meantime, If you would like to present a talk on such a theme, please send the title, slot duration (minimum of 15 minutes) and a brief description (for the web site) to sevan At NetBSD.org." BSDCan is June 9, 10 in Ottawa Canada https://www.bsdcan.org/2017/ EuroBSDCon is September 21-24 in Paris, France https://2017.eurobsdcon.org/