BALUG Tu 2011-09-20: Travis H on Encrypted Storage
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-09-20
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-09-20 meeting, we're proud to present:
Travis H on Encrypted Storage
This is a talk covering the three types of encrypted storage technologies (application-level, filesystem, block device) in Linux (and BSD, unless we want to skip those slides). We will start off a little abstract, and end up very practical, with LUKS/dm-crypt and TrueCrypt, and end up with some important discussion about thumb drives and the limits of what we can achieve.
Travis H is the founder of Bay Area Hacker's Association (BAHA)[1], a former member of Austin Hacker's Association (AHA), and has been employed doing security or cryptography for financial institutions, web client software, top 50 web sites, e-commerce hosting companies, and other organizations. He has been part of the largest security monitoring operation in the world, security consulting startups, helped design an intrusion detection system, and has taught code-making and breaking at Stanford. He also has written a book on security which is free online. He is a fan of the Ghost in the Shell franchise, and collects Matrix-inspired fashion accessories.
See also a bit further below for some additional goodies we'll have at this meeting (CDs, etc.)
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp@balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and dining arrangements and such. We've also tweaked our "door prize" / giveaway practices a bit - so RSVPing and arriving sufficiently on time increases one's odds of winning door prize(s) and/or getting first or earlier pick of giveaway items.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 2011-09-20
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner).
Additional goodies we'll have at this meeting (at least the following):
CDs, etc. - have a peek here: http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have "door prizes".