Meeting: 2010.03.31 0x002a

Our forty-third technical meeting was held March 31st, 2010, from 7pm to 9pm, in a meeting room at Mangia. Mangia is located at 8012 Mesa Dr, Austin, Texas (map).

Food and drinks are permissible at the meeting, provided you purchase said food and drink from Mangia.

Speaker Notes

I)ruid

This month I spoke about simulating a failing power grid via two different methods; First was a method using a fluorescent light starter for low wattage (<75W) applications such as a short string of low-watt bulbs or a single lamp. Second was a method for higher wattage (up to 600W) applications using a dimmer switch in series with a photo-resistor that receives it's light from a flicker bulb, driving the power output to an electrical outlet. No slides this month, just a lot of cables and incandescent light bulbs…

TK

I gave a quick update on the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE); a security standard that ultimately is aimed at helping security vendors interoperate. Currently at version 2.2, it is a part of NIST's Security Content Automation Protocol or SCAP. I have been involved with these standards since their inception and given the audience, I took the liberty to state my opinions freely. As an alternative to CPE, I presented the pros and cons of ISO/IEC 19770-2 tagging. You can read up on these standards and form your own opinion.
CPE Information can be found here
SCAP is best described in this Special Publication 800-126
ISO/IEC 19770-2 is best described in this short video

Our forty-third technical meeting was held March 31st, 2010, from 7pm to 9pm, in a meeting room at Mangia. Mangia is located at 8012 Mesa Dr, Austin, Texas (map).

Food and drinks are permissible at the meeting, provided you purchase said food and drink from Mangia.

Speaker Notes

I)ruid

This month I spoke about simulating a failing power grid via two different methods; First was a method using a fluorescent light starter for low wattage (<75W) applications such as a short string of low-watt bulbs or a single lamp. Second was a method for higher wattage (up to 600W) applications using a dimmer switch in series with a photo-resistor that receives it's light from a flicker bulb, driving the power output to an electrical outlet. No slides this month, just a lot of cables and incandescent light bulbs…

TK

I gave a quick update on the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE); a security standard that ultimately is aimed at helping security vendors interoperate. Currently at version 2.2, it is a part of NIST's Security Content Automation Protocol or SCAP. I have been involved with these standards since their inception and given the audience, I took the liberty to state my opinions freely. As an alternative to CPE, I presented the pros and cons of ISO/IEC 19770-2 tagging. You can read up on these standards and form your own opinion.
CPE Information can be found here
SCAP is best described in this Special Publication 800-126
ISO/IEC 19770-2 is best described in this short video

redpig

I spoke a bit about some kernel development I'm doing to allow for fast, integrity check root file systems using a fixed hash tree.

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