Poul-Henning Kamp to present in Cambridge 29 Feb, 3 March
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 28 08:54:52 GMT 2008
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Robert Watson wrote:
> Poul-Henning Kamp, a long-time FreeBSD developer from Denmark, will be in=
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> Cambridge, UK in a couple of weeks, and will be giving two talks at the=
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> Computer Laboratory in West Cambridge, one on his security-related work o=
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> FreeBSD (password hashes and encrypted storage), and the second on the=20
> Varnish web accelerator. These are both open to the public; please check=
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> the URLs before attending in case the venue has changed. Directions and=
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> other information may be found on the Computer Laboratory website:
My later followup seems lost in the moderation queue; as an FYI,=20
Poul-Henning's first talk has moved locations to Lecture Theatre 1 at the C=
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due to an anticipation of a larger audience.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/
>
> The first talk is part of our Security Group meeting presentation series,=
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> takes place on Friday 29 February.
>
> MD5crypt and GBDE: observations of a non-union cryptographer
> http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/10875
>
> Poul-Henning Kamp
> Friday 29 February 2008, 16:00-16:30
> Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.
> If you have a question about this talk, please contact robert.watson.
>
> Cryptographers are great guys and smart people, but why don=E2=80=99t th=
ey ever
> produce code that solves the problems we have, and why do the whine when=
we
> do ?
>
> MD5crypt, probably the worlds most widely used protection of passwords, =
was
> thrown together by a non-cryptographer in an afternoon, why did he have =
to=20
> ?
> (and why isn=E2=80=99t he too proud of it ?)
>
> GBDE , an encrypted disk facility, took considerably more work in the=20
> second
> step of the Feynmann algorithm, and a solid beating from the cryptograph=
ers
> card-carrying union members, but did anybody learn anything and if so, w=
hat
> ?
>
> This talk is part of the Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting
> presentations series.
>
> The second talk is part of our Network and Operating System (NetOS) semin=
ar=20
> series and takes place 3 March:
>
> Varnish -- programming like it is 2008
> http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/10766
>
> Poul-Henning Kamp (http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/)
> Monday 03 March 2008, 11:00-12:00
> Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.
> If you have a question about this talk, please contact Eiko Yoneki.
>
> =E2=80=9CA computer consists of a CPU , RAM, DISK and I/O=E2=80=9D has d=
one more damage
> to computer performance than any 3D eye-candy will ever do.
>
> Recent (ie: 1980) advances in hardware and operating systems are largely
> ignored in education of programmers, leading to inefficient and stupid
> programming practices, which neither faster hardware nor better operatin=
g
> systems can do much about.
>
> Using the Varnish HTTP accellerator he wrote as an example, a hard-core
> kernel programmer will try to show how an application, properly designed=
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> for
> modern hardware and operating systems, can be 10 times faster than the
> competition, and still not use more than a fraction of the hardware
> resources.
>
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
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