crypto

SOTA Solution and FOTA Solution for AGL

SOTA Solution and FOTA Solution for AGL

March 2, 2020

The presentation describes the result of using RAUC as an AGL SOTA solution. It will visit the prerequisite requirements for the hardware platform (A/B partitions, cryptography for image signing, requ …
Creating a FOSS Study Group at my University

Creating a FOSS Study Group at my University

February 24, 2020

It's not uncommon to see students wanting to discuss or learn a topic that isn't in the course curriculum. Without the proper references, teachers or colleagues to engage in a different topic, student …
Keylime, Securing your Slice of the Cloud.

Keylime, Securing your Slice of the Cloud.

February 10, 2020

Keylime is a scalable cloud trust attestation management system. Keylime provides both bootstrapping of hardware rooted cryptographic identities for IaaS nodes and for system integrity monitoring of t …
Linux Encryption Performance is Not an Excuse Anymore

Linux Encryption Performance is Not an Excuse Anymore

February 10, 2020

Data breaches pose a threat to almost every enterprise today and are definitely getting more attention than ever before. One of the most effective ways to keep your data safe is by encrypting it, whet …
The future of stablecoin

The future of stablecoin

February 9, 2020

With the emergence of cryptoeconomy, there is a real demand for an alternative form of money. Major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have thus far failed to achieve mass adoption. Catherine Gu examines the paradigm of algorithmic design of stablecoins, focusing on incentive structure and decentralized governance, to evaluate the role of stablecoin as a future medium of exchange.
Using TPMs to Cryptographically Verify Devices at Scale

Using TPMs to Cryptographically Verify Devices at Scale

February 5, 2020

Once a new device leaves IT and enters user hands, maintaining confidence in the security of the device is a challenge. When access to network resources relies on credentials provided by the device, r …
Verifying Device Identity with TPMs

Verifying Device Identity with TPMs

February 2, 2020

There are many cases where you'd like to know exactly which computer you're talking to. Sometimes it's because you're SSHing to a remote machine and you'd like to verify your connection isn't being in …
Blockchain for good

Blockchain for good

January 31, 2020

ixo is the blockchain for impact, helping individuals and organizations around the world to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Herman Smith dives into how ixo can help you count what matters and value what counts using new Web 3.0 protocols and the ixo blockchain.
Lightning Talk: Lilliput-AE: A Candidate to the NIST Lightweight Cryptographic Standardization Process

Lightning Talk: Lilliput-AE: A Candidate to the NIST Lightweight Cryptographic Standardization Process

January 17, 2020

Lilliput-AE is a candidate to the new upcoming NIST Lightweight Cryptographic Standardization Process, that has serious advantages from security and performance point of view. Lilliput-AE performs ver …
Under Lock & Key: Using Hardware Protected Keys with the Linux Crypto API

Under Lock & Key: Using Hardware Protected Keys with the Linux Crypto API

January 14, 2020

The Linux Crypto API which provides potentially hardware accelerated cryptographic services to the Linux kernel and user space programs running under it, has a little known but extremely useful featur …
Authenticated and Encrypted Storage on Embedded Linux

Authenticated and Encrypted Storage on Embedded Linux

January 9, 2020

The Linux kernel provides many building blocks for authenticating and/or encrypting data (and code) on storage devices: dm-crypt, dm-verity, dm-integrity, fscrypt, ecryptfs, IMA/EMV, fsverity, and UBI …
Privacy-preserving machine learning in TensorFlow with TF Encrypted

Privacy-preserving machine learning in TensorFlow with TF Encrypted

December 29, 2019

Morten Dahl reviews modern cryptographic techniques such as homomorphic encryption and multiparty computation, sharing concrete examples in TensorFlow using the open source library TF Encrypted. Join in to learn how to get started with privacy-preserving techniques today, without needing to master the cryptography.
How to Determine if Its the Right Advanced Technology to Bring into Your Organization

How to Determine if Its the Right Advanced Technology to Bring into Your Organization

December 26, 2019

During this session the main properties of Blockchain technology (ie. Open-Sourced, Peer-to-Peer, Cryptographically Secured, etc.) will be addressed to determine the role they play into adding value a …
Beyond Blockchains and Proof of Work

Beyond Blockchains and Proof of Work

December 25, 2019

At once revolutionary and also over-hyped, blockchains represent a dilemma: the underlying technology proposed to date is thoroughly incapable of living up to a fraction of the dream that has been sol …
Modernizing Workloads with Linux on Your Mainframe

Modernizing Workloads with Linux on Your Mainframe

December 25, 2019

As a Systems Administrator working with modern tooling on Linux, you may see that mainframe your company uses as legacy technology that requires replacement. However, the modern mainframe has advantag …
Securing Communication Between Meshes and Beyond with SPIFFE Federation

Securing Communication Between Meshes and Beyond with SPIFFE Federation

November 24, 2019

One of the hottest features that Istio brings to the table is transparent, mutually-authenticated TLS between all workloads running on it. Under the covers, it relies on SPIFFE to provide the cryptogr …
Prepare to Be Boarded! A Tale of Kubernetes, Plunder, and Cryptobooty

Prepare to Be Boarded! A Tale of Kubernetes, Plunder, and Cryptobooty

November 22, 2019

How are Kubernetes clusters being compromised in the wild? There arent a whole lot of public reports detailing successful attacks against Kubernetes clusters. The goal of this talk is to demystify t …
Intro to CNAB: Packaging Cloud Native Applications with Multiple Toolchains

Intro to CNAB: Packaging Cloud Native Applications with Multiple Toolchains

November 14, 2019

When you deploy a cloud native application, you probably use a variety of tools for each part of the application. Terraform or ARM templates for the infrastructure, Helm or Compose for containers, etc …
Zero Trust Service Mesh with Calico, SPIRE, and Envoy

Zero Trust Service Mesh with Calico, SPIRE, and Envoy

November 6, 2019

The promise of a service mesh is to be able to delegate the hard networking problems to a uniform set of proxies and controllers. An extremely important networking problem is securing traffic within t …
Securing Kubernetes with Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

Securing Kubernetes with Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

October 22, 2019

TPM is a discrete tamper-resistant device soldered to the motherboard and it operates independently of its host. TPM devices are designed to protect sensitive credentials at the hardware level: crede …
Using Blockchain and Cryptography to Enable Privacy-preserving and Inclusive Financial Services for Institutions, Companies and Consumers

Using Blockchain and Cryptography to Enable Privacy-preserving and Inclusive Financial Services for Institutions, Companies and Consumers

September 26, 2019

Security, privacy and ownership concerns prevent majority of worlds most valuable data from being fully utilized. We hope to address the issue by combining distributed ledger, smart contract, cryptog …
Can Blockchain Make a Financial and Information Revolution? - Use Cases of Commercial Project at National Bank of Cambodia and Moscow Exchange Group -

Can Blockchain Make a Financial and Information Revolution? - Use Cases of Commercial Project at National Bank of Cambodia and Moscow Exchange Group -

September 19, 2019

Soramitsu Co., Ltd. which is the original developer of Hyperledger Iroha explains unique features of Hyperledger Iroha V1.0 and use cases of commercial projects such as digital currency with National …