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By Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (‎daxim‎) from Vienna.pm
Date: Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:35
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate
Language:
Tags: lwp ssl web

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∙ introduction: why do we need end-to-end encryption?
∙ instructions for creating your own certificates, explanation of Server Name Indication
∙ motivation for the talk: automatic validation in libwww-perl v6 and the problems with it in the wild, Firefox extension Firesheep, forgeries at Comodo
∙ summary of the findings from the SSL observatory at the Electronic Frontiers Foundation
∙ what CAs are good for and how to get rid of them
∙ prospect alternatives: trust on first use + Certificate Patrol, Monkeysphere

Attended by:

• Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (‎daxim‎)
• Leon Brocard (‎acme‎)
• Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎)
• Patrick Mevzek
• Aliaksandr Zahatski (‎zag‎)
• Silvano Luciani
• Stefan Hornburg (‎Racke‎)
• Alba Ferrer (‎alba‎)
• Aku Kauste
• Michael Lang (‎langmic‎)
• Florian Ragwitz (‎rafl‎)
• Lukáš Rampa
• Daniel Blom
• roger blom
• Tom Hukins
• Ovidiu Satmari (‎ovidiu.satmari‎)
• Teemu Nuutinen
• Ulrich Wisser (‎wisser‎)
• Noah Kogler
• Roman Baumer (‎rba‎)
• Maria Hedberg
• Jozef Kutej (‎jozef‎)
• Anders Nielsen (‎anielsen‎)
• Mårten Svantesson
• Gunnar Koppel (‎wk‎)
• Jan Henning Thorsen (‎batman‎)
• Ben Martin
• Moritz Onken (‎mo‎)
• Jesse Vincent
• Jordi Raimon Subirats
• Ben Thomas (‎ozukira‎)
• Alex Muntada (‎alexm‎)
• Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (‎maddingue‎)
• Eriks Remess
• Norbert Gruener
• Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann (‎Sadrak‎)
• Francoise Dehinbo (‎franky‎)
• Karsten Silkenbaeumer (‎ksi‎)