Ximin Luo

I'm Ximin Luo, a Debian Developer and security research engineer. I work on secure protocols and decentralized systems. I prefer to use high-level checked languages such as Rust, OCaml, or Haskell. I work for the Reproducible Builds project and have previously worked for MEGA, Tor, Google and Freenet.

I also like music, cooking, sci-fi and cats, in an order indistinguishable from a truly random sequence by a polynomial-time-bounded computational adversary.


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"Lots of things are wrong with the internet, everything sucks" is a recurring theme at many tech events like this. But there is not enough focus on concrete long-term fixes. Discussions of security topics are not systematic enough, and people and companies pushing selfish agendas makes these problems worse.

In this talk we suggest better "ground-up" approaches to secure system design. Composability is the key idea here; we'll discuss both abstract principles for ac… Read more


Schedule:

  • Wednesday, Aug 31st, 2016, 15:00 (CEST) - Wednesday, Aug 31st, 2016, 16:00 (CEST)

Let's verify each other's digital PGP keys at BornHack so that we can authenticate each other when we are not together at the island.

For people who haven't attended a PGP keysigning party before, we will guide you through it

What do I need to bring?

  1. Bring the output of gpg --fingerprint $YOUR_KEY_ID on some pieces of paper to hand out.
  2. (Optional) Bring some government-issued identification paper (passport, drivers license, etc.). The ID sho… Read more

    Schedule:

    • Wednesday, Aug 31st, 2016, 21:00 (CEST) - Wednesday, Aug 31st, 2016, 22:00 (CEST)