Thursday
Room 1 - Level 3
17:40 - 18:40
(UTC±00)
Talk (60 min)
CS Fundamentals: Why SSL and SSH are Secure
We trust the lock icon in our browser when we browse the web, but why? How is it possible to send information from one point to another “securely”?
In this talk Rob Conery and Jon Skeet will dig into the most important algorithm ever created and, accordingly, the most downloaded software of all time: RSA. We take it for granted, but this algorithm has been the dream of cryptographers for millennia, and the nightmare of governments around the world - and were going to implement it it live, with some fun stories along the way.
Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet is a Staff Developer Platform Engineer at Google, working on Google Cloud Platform client libraries for .NET, based in the London office. (That's the theory, anyway. Most of the time he works from his shed instead.) He's best known for contributions to Stack Overflow as well as his book, C# in Depth. Additionally he is the primary maintainer of the Noda Time date/time library for .NET.
Outside of software, Jon is a committed Christian, and enjoys theatre (particularly musical theatre), playing board games, and spending time with his amazing family.
Rob Conery
Rob Conery works at Microsoft with the VS Code team, creating content for YouTube as well as contributing to open source projects. Rob is also the author of The Imposter’s Handbook, The Imposter’s Roadmap, and A Curious Moon. Rob was also a Pluralsight author and, before that, founded Tekpub.com.