gnome-keyring [FOSDEM] CFP: Security / hardware crypto & FOSS



I'm forwarding here a call for participation announcement by Martin
Paljak for a devroom in FOSDEM 2011.

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CFP: Security / hardware crypto
AKA "Protect your privates!"


FOSDEM 2011 will [1] take place in Brussels, the heart of EU. In 2011,
as almost all EU countries have either ongoing rollouts of national eID
cards or are planning it, many people will find yet another smartcard in
their wallet. Cards that don't contain virtual credit but private keys
and certificates that can be used for many purposes in the online world.
FOSS has an important role in the overall eID infrastructure, either on
the server side inside Apache's mod_ssl, on the client computer inside
Firefox as OpenSC PKCS#11 module or hidden in the infrastructure,
issuing the certificates from an EJBCA server, which is administered
over SSH.

Security in the online world matters and one the most common tools for
it is cryptography and PKI. The chain is as strong as its weakest link
and for PKI, the security of private keys matters. The integrated and
widespread nature of PKI implementation makes it difficult to get it
perfect, but one must not stop trying.

Do you develop software that uses HTTPS protocol? Can it use keys and
certificates on a smart card? Does your service use RSA keys for
signing? Can it work with hardware keys? Are you interested in
protecting your private keys like Three Letter Organizations or do you
want to roll your own proper PKI with a smaller than five or six digit
budget? How can we make cryptographic hardware Just Work with any
application that uses crypto? The devroom is the place to share
experiences and learn.

This is the call for talks and presentations that will take place in the
Security devroom at FOSDEM 2011.

Security / hardware crytpo devroom will take place on Saturday,
05.02.2011, in room AW1.105 with 48 seats. The expected audience will
range from crypto library developers to desktop GUI creators, from
hardware driver makers to business software providers. Two main themes
are cross-application (hardware) interoperability and user
awareness/education, but if you have anything interesting to share that
deals with security or cryptography, don't be bounded by the main topic.
Don't be limited with a traditional "presentation and questions" format,
hands-on workshop format is also welcome.


HOWTO:
 * Subscribe to security-devroom lists fosdem org [2]
 * Send a short talk description, its duration, your bio/affiliation and
contact information to the list and/or add it directly to the OpenSC
wiki [3].
   * There are 5 up to 1 hour slots (with 10 minutes for Q&A and 5
minutes for organizational time included, so 45 minutes max for a talk)
   * You don't have to fill the entire slot, 30 minute slots with ~20+5
+5 minutes format are also OK
   * FOSDEM is for FOSS developers, keep this in mind when planning your
talk.
 * The deadline for submissions is 21.12.2010 23:00 UTC
 * The final schedule for the day will be fixed no later than 04.01.2011
 * If there will be more submissions than there are time slots, then
  * a) you may be asked to jam your presentation into a shorter (20
minutes) format
  * b) the final list will be fixed by subscribers of
security-devroom lists fosdem org list

I kindly ask you to forward this announcement to any relevant FOSS
project mailing list.

[1] http://fosdem.org/2011/
[2] http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/security-devroom
[3] http://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/wiki/FOSDEM2011

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