The Boston Python User Group

Unstructured Zoom office hours! Drop in to ask questions, or help people, or just chat. Any topic or expertise level is fine!

You can add topics or questions to the #office-hour Slack channel ahead of time but you don't have to: https://bostonpython.slack.com/archives/C02V2C7U3D3

We might change the pace, timing, or structure over time. We're trying things out to see what works.

Unstructured Zoom office hours! Drop in to ask questions, or help people, or just chat. Any topic or expertise level is fine!

You can add topics or questions to the #office-hour Slack channel ahead of time but you don't have to: https://bostonpython.slack.com/archives/C02V2C7U3D3

We might change the pace, timing, or structure over time. We're trying things out to see what works.

Tonight, a presentation by Scott Sanderson. We'll have plenty of time for socializing and networking before the talk.

PSA: We are looking for a sponsor! Is your company interested? Get in touch!

We will provide pizza. We won't be able to stream or record the event.

What I Wish I Had Known Before Joining an Authentication Startup: A Conceptual Introduction to Cryptography

Every time we use computers, we use cryptography. We use TLS to protect our communications, we use hashed passwords and SSH keys to authenticate ourselves, and we use protocols like OAuth and SAML to share data between services.

As developers, we often build or maintain systems that depend on cryptography, but cryptographic tools and libraries can be intimidating, with documentation that presents a wall of inscrutable acronyms alongside dire warnings about the consequences of incorrect choices.

This talk will provide an overview of cryptographic concepts that developers are likely to encounter in their daily work. Our focus will be on building a high-level understanding of how to think about cryptography. We'll discuss the guarantees provided by fundamental building blocks like hashes, digital signatures, and symmetric/asymmetric encryption, and we'll discuss how these components are used to create the higher-level protocols that power systems we interact with every day.

Unstructured Zoom office hours! Drop in to ask questions, or help people, or just chat. Any topic or expertise level is fine!

You can add topics or questions to the #office-hour Slack channel ahead of time but you don't have to: https://bostonpython.slack.com/archives/C02V2C7U3D3

We might change the pace, timing, or structure over time. We're trying things out to see what works.