Seminar On practical Security
Welcome to the
sixth annual BU RISCS Seminar On practical Security, a part of the
effort to
Secure the Open Softphone. The seminar meets
Fridays during the summer from
noon-1pm in PHO 339.
This page provides organizational information for the seminar.
Introduction
The intent of the seminar is to focus on practical elements of security, including implementation, offensive and defensive approaches, and even physical security: the type of security that is typically represented in less academic hacker conferences such as
BLACKHAT,
DEFCON,
SHMOOCON, or the
Chaos Computing Congress. Such practical areas of security are still poorly permeated by the academic community, and yet the academic world can provide a lot of needed guidance and fundamental thinking, in addition to getting some grounding in real-world challenges.
All elements of practical security are in scope for this seminar. For example, entropy-reducing attacks on current implementations of random-number generators are appropriate, whereas a novel cryptosystem predicated on the ability of pigs to fly might not be (unless, of course, you provide a demonstration of said pigs).
Seminar list
A presentation icon (
) denotes an accompanying slideshow provided by the speaker.
Older seminars
You can find older seminars linked here:
- 2015 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from Summer 2015.
- 2014 - Seminar list, with some presentations slides, from Summer 2014.
References
BU students and faculty may access site-licensed videos of some hacker conferences (with their kerberos ID):