Excitement is brewing for SCW PodCon in Las Vegas, featuring a fun party sponsored by Teleport. The hosts delve into the quirky differences between SSH certificates and X.509, while sharing personal stories from their Vegas adventures. They also discuss the latest cryptographic challenges highlighted at Black Hat and DEF CON, including vulnerabilities that could exploit even solid algorithms. The conversation touches on federated security protocols, quantum threats, and the implications of the Fiat Shamir transform, keeping listeners on the edge of their seats.
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Teleport's Value in SSH Security
Teleport, a certificate-based SSH system, is crucial for efficient and secure SSH access management.
It provides session transcripts, aiding audits and SOC 2 compliance effortlessly.
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SSH Certificates Are Not X.509
SSH certificates are not X.509 certificates, alleviating related complexity and skepticism.
This distinction makes SSH certificates more attractive to those wary of traditional certificate systems.
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Deirdre's Fun Salting Phase
Deirdre recently became unemployed and is open to interesting cryptographic projects.
She describes this phase as "fun salting," hinting at a relaxed but exploratory period.
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We’re throwing a party in Vegas! Someone called it SCWPodCon last year, and the name stuck. It’s sponsored by Teleport, the infrastructure identity company. Get SSO for SSH! If Thomas was here, I’m sure he’d tell you that Fly.io uses Teleport internally. Oh also there's some thing called Black..pill? Black Pool? Something like that happening in Vegas, with crypto talks, so we chatted about them a bit, plus some other stuff
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