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
My name is Rob Conery and I help developers of all sorts learn what’s new with technology. I have been working in the technology field full time since 1998 as a DBA and then a web developer. My original focus was the Microsoft ASP.NET stack, building tools like Subsonic and the first Micro-ORM: Massive. In addition I co-founded Tekpub.com (acquired byPluralsight) with James Avery and co-host This Developer’s Life with my friend, Scott Hanselman. I currently create videos for Pluralsight and build open source things as I can.