CLUG members and friends are invited to the CUUG May meeting
Tuesday May 27. Admission is free.
Regards,
Chris Aziz
CUUG President
May General Meeting
LibreSSL: an Open-Source Replacement for OpenSSL
Sometimes You Just Gotta Say, "Fork It!"
Speaker: Theo de Raadt, Founder, OpenBSD <http://www.openbsd.org/>
In April 2014, the Heartbleed <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed>
security bug came to the world's attention.
Sites using the OpenSSL <http://www.openssl.org> Transport Layer Security (TLS)
library were vulnerable to attacks
exposing private information (which could include passwords and financial data)
to malicious third parties. Since a
significant fraction of all web sites use OpenSSL, this was a very serious
problem.
Always concerned about security, the OpenBSD <http://www.openbsd.org/> team
assessed the situation and concluded that
the OpenSSL group was not up to the task of repairing the damage and providing
a secure implementation for future use.
Instead of simply waiting for OpenSSL to improve on its own, OpenBSD developers
decided to get directly involved and
produce an API-compatible fork, named LibreSSL <http://www.libressl.org/>.
Initially, LibreSSL is specifically targeted only for OpenBSD. Much of the
cruft in the original OpenSSL code base is
being removed, leaving a simpler and more maintainable core. Once that is
stable, ports to other operating systems are
expected to follow.
Theo de Raadt, OpenBSD founder and never shy with his opinions, discusses the
background, current efforts, and possible
future directions for LibreSSL. He will also be able to address any questions
about other OpenBSD development for the
November release 5.6 of OpenBSD.
Theo de Raadt is widely recognized as a world class security expert. In October
1995, Theo founded the OpenBSD project.
OpenBSD is the most secure of the publicly available operating systems.
In 1999, Theo created OpenSSH with other members of OpenBSD. It is now
incorporated into all Unix systems plus hundreds
of other network enabled products. It has become the most "vendor re-used"
piece of open source software, with more than
95% of the SSH market.
Theo was awarded the Free Software Foundation's 2004 Award for the Advancement
of Free Software, for recognition as
founder and project leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects. His work has
also led to significant contributions to
other BSD distributions and GNU/Linux. Of particular note is Theo's work on
OpenSSH, his leadership of OpenBSD, his
commitment to Free Software and his advancement of network security.
Theo is also well known for his advocacy of free software drivers. He has long
been critical of developers of Linux and
other free platforms for their tolerance of non-free drivers and acceptance of
non-disclosure agreements.
The City of Calgary - Water Centre
Bow River Room 2
625 - 25 Ave. S.E.
(25^th Avenue S.E. and Spiller Road S.E.)
(link to location on Google Maps)
<http://maps.google.ca/?q=loc:City+of+Calgary+Water+Centre&sll=51.02924,-114.04849>
(link to parking information) <http://cuug.ab.ca/images/WaterCentre.png>
(more parking information) <http://cuug.ab.ca/images/Water_Centre_Parking.pdf>
5:30 PM, Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Snacks at 17:30. Presentation begins at 18:00.
Free admission for the general public.
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