Throughout 2018 several computer vulnerabilities got into the spotlight, possessing all the ingredients needed to attract attention: the core issue was unusually located in the processor rather than the software; almost all personal computers, servers and portable...
The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities are part of a class of hardware flaws which have existed for years, but which have only recently been discovered. David will describe the problems, and explain the techniques used for mitigating them in software — from...
For decades, all laptops have come with a TPM. Now with Microsoft forcing the transition to the next generation, Linux faces a challenge in that all the previous TPM 1.2 tools don’t work with 2.0. Having to create new tools for TPM 2.0 also provides the opportunity...
Zinc is a new minimal cryptography API for the kernel that is in the process of being upstreamed. Rather than providing an abstracted framework, Zinc provides simple functions. This talk will address the design considerations of the new API, its approach to...
The French Network and Information Security Agency (ANSSI) just declassified and released the sources of its long-time internal hardened Linux distribution: CLIP OS. The project’s main goal is to build an operating system able to handle confidential information at...
