Erica Portnoy
Erica Portnoy
Electronic Frontier Foundation- Website: http://www.eff.org/about/staff/erica-portnoy
- Twitter: ohemorange
Biography
Erica is a Staff Technologist at EFF building Certbot, the web’s https-enabling robot buddy. She earned her BSE in computer science at Princeton, where she researched oblivious computation for messaging privacy and took two different classes where she had to watch Star Trek for homework. Upon graduating, she protected authentication tokens in secure enclaves and experimented with searchable encryption. She likes dogs, the pouring rain, and being right.
Open Source Bridge 2017 Birds of a Feather
Proposals for this user
* Certbot & Let's Encrypt Office Hours
Bring your questions about turning on https for your website with Certbot and Let's Encrypt.
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Birds of a Feather session | 2017-06-19 21:50:52 +0000 |
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Open Source Bridge 2017
Sessions for this user
* Keeping Secrets On Remote Machines
Conventional wisdom says that using the cloud means giving up privacy and control. But maybe crypto is actually literally magic and we can have our cake and eat it too? We're mostly not there yet, but let's talk about some of the ways that we're getting close.
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Theory |
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* Translating Ancient Texts: The Nginx Parser
Find out what it took to get Certbot's Nginx parser working, which is an... exciting... tale at the intersection of programming language theory, regular expressions, formal grammars, and the utter lack of these in a fine, aged codebase.
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Practice |
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