Christoph Schuba's Weblog Security Technologies

OSOSOS - Offering Security in OpenSource Operating Systems

Location: San Jose Convention Center. Ballroom A3/A6
Date/Time: Thu. July 23, 2009 - 8pm

Moderated by: Christoph Schuba

Many operating system security mechanisms are necessary for developers to build secure software. While this session presents a few such mechanisms available and under development in OpenSolaris, it primarily seeks the dialogue and discussion how important these features are and how they compare to those of other OSes.

Speakers will do short talks on the Cryptographic Framework (Valerie Fenwick), Priveleges (Scott Rotondo) and Zones/TX (Glenn Faden), followed by a panel from all presenters, plus Christoph Schuba and Glenn Barry (Kerberos Guru).

BoFs are free, you just need to register for the expo pass (also free!) On-site registration is also possible, should you decide last minute to join us!

It's time to post an update for the scripting tools some of us have been using for automating OpenSolaris technology demonstrations. The latest code drop is here.  The tar files contains everything that was posted previously, including a bug fix and a new crypto framework demo script that shows how to use soft tokens for persistent key storage across reboots. Scott Rotondo also contributed a python script called makedemo that automates the creation of demo scripts from a shell script. For detailed instructions how to use these tools, please refer to my earlier blog entry.