Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Lightning talks?

[Noah Vesely]

Hi Niibe,

It seems nobody responded to you on this, but if you have already (or
when) you have figured this out, please let us know the time(s) you will
be givng your lightning talk(s). I am very interested in your work and
seeing you present!

Noah

NIIBE Yutaka:
> Hello,
> 
> I will join LibrePlanet, it will be my first time.  (I had joined FSF
> associate members meetings and international GPL conferences.)  Well,
> my last visit to Boston was in 2006.  Time flies.
> 
> As I don't have any experience, I'd like to ask how lightning talks
> will be organized.  And I also would like to ask a possibility of
> short ad-hoc session.
> 
> I am a principal developer of Gnuk and NeuG, and a developer of GnuPG.
> I also work for Free Software Initiative of Japan.
> 
> I have some things to show:
> 
> 
> (1) gniibe Distributed Hanoi Protocol:
> 
>     http://www.gniibe.org/pages/gdhp.html
> 
>     This is a protocol between three persons.  I propose this protocol
>     as an alternative of OpenPGP fingerprint exchanges.  I mean, only
>     exchanging fingerprint would be boring and/or key signing is very
>     exotic for non-GPG users.  With this protocol, we can enjoy, too.
>     (I know it takes more time.)
> 
> 
> (2) FSM-55 with "Happy Hacking!" and "GNU's Not UNIX!"
> 
>     Flying Stone Mini 55 and free hardware design:
>     http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/FSM-55
> 
>     FSM-55:
>     http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/FSM55-LED-Matrix-Display-p-2121.html
> 
>     I designed this board when I saw the shutdown of FreeRouting.Net
>     service last year.
>     It displays "Happy Hacking!" and "GNU's Not UNIX!".
> 
> 
> (3) FST-01 with NeuG
> 
>     NeuG, a True Random Number Generator Implementation:
>     http://www.gniibe.org/memo/development/gnuk/rng/neug.html
> 
>     Security of NeuG?:
>     http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/gnuk-users/2015q1/000090.html
> 
>     After 2013, encryption becomes popular, that's great.  Now, my
>     concern is entropy used for those encryption (or digital
>     signature).  To improve the situation, I sell FST-01 (my hardware)
>     with NeuG by myself in Japan, which is reasonably cheap, but it's
>     only something like two pieces per month.  I think that it's not
>     enough to fill the needs.
> 
>     Buying FST-01 with NeuG 1.0.1 (in Japanese):
>     http://www.gniibe.org/shop/neug_1_0_x-on-fst-01.html
> 
>     The hardware design is free (as in freedom) and respects users'
>     freedom, and more, I make it reproducible as possible.
> 
>     NeuG is designed to generate random number sequences which
>     _nobody_ can control.  While it's very important for users
>     to control their own computing, this is interesting.
> 
> 
> Well, I will also bring my name card of GnuPG, so that you can do
> integrity check of its (source code) releases.
>