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BLESS: Better Security and Ops for SSH Access
Bryan Payne talks about BLESS in general: what it is, how it works, and how we can start using it. He explores the Netflix BLESS production architecture and how other companies have used BLESS.
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Blockchain: The Oracle Problems
Paul Sztorc talks about why the oracle problem is so hard (the historical evolution of failures, why they fail), and the basics of blockchain ("blockchain as immortal software", ledger "rents").
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Practical Blockchains: Building on Bitcoin
Peter Todd answers the questions: why use Bitcoin over other blockchains, what is safe, future proof ways to peg data to Bitcoin's blockchain and what is Bitcoin script, and how it can be used.
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Practical Cryptography & Blockchain Panel
The panel discusses the most important trends involving the blockchain today and fields questions from the audience. Topics covered: smart contracts, oracles, sidechains, and blockchains.
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Assuring Crypto-code with Automated Reasoning
A.Tomb describes the capabilities of some open source tools that allow us to automatically determine whether a low-level cryptographic implementation matches a higher-level mathematical specification
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Banking from the Future: Cryptocurrency Key Storage
Olaf Carlson-Wee examines various novel cryptosystems used to facilitate the secure storage of billions of dollars in global crypto banks.
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Bitcoin Security: 1/10th Cent to a Billion Dollars
Olaf Carlson-Wee explores micropayment and wealth storage use cases for bitcoin and examines cryptosystems used to facilitate micro-penny payments and secure $B in global bitcoin banks.
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Hash Histories - Toy Blockchains for Great Danger
Chris Anderson discusses Document Coin and using blockchain in new and innovative ways. He presents the JavaScript Cryptography code line by line and runs test cases using Prova in the browser.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Crypto Again
Graham Steel discusses several cryptographic standards and examines the key management and cryptographic primitives offered by some of most widely encountered crypto APIs.
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Famous Unsolved Codes: Kryptos
Elonka Dunin reviews the CIA Kryptos’ history, going over the parts that have been solved, and discussing efforts to crack the famous unsolved section, K4.
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Cloud Security or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud
Cloud security, according to IDC (2010), is the main worry for companies. Alon Hazy and Jakob Illeborg Pagter look at the threat landscape, and examine secure cloud solutions today and in the future.
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