FOSDEM slides

[Sascha Brawer]

>If other presentations are also online, please post them to the list.

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Java Security: How Free Software Is Secured Using the Java Language

After a general introduction to why Java seems a reasonable choice for
writing large and robust free software packages, the talk discusses the
security features of the Java platform. It is shown how several actors
play together to ensure type safety, encapsulation and declarative access
control. Four concrete denial-of-service attacks illustrate the
importance of enhancing the platform by techniques for managing resource
consumption.

http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/articles/classpathSecurity/
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As Mark said on this list, one of the talks in the FOSDEM security track
couldn't be given, which was an unexpected opportunity to present Java
security (and the existence of free Java implementations) to a broader
audience. Because there was so little time for preparation, we had to
mangle the general presentation into something that might be of interest
to a security audience. IMHO, this just-in-time squeezing has left some
visible scratches and rough edges, but the audience didn't seem to
complain. Some people even came and asked how they could help Classpath.

Thanks heaps to Chris, Dalibor, Mark and everyone else who helped with
last-minute comments, late-night hacking, etc.

Best regards,

-- Sascha

Sascha Brawer, address@hidden, http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/