Both of these talks will be held at Baskin Engineering in room 152 on May 14th, starting at 5pm.
Directions to the main UCSC campus are available, as are maps of the Baskin Engineering area.
Special thanks to the IEEE Student Branch. Be sure to check out their famous CyberSlug t-shirts available for sale.
Eric P. Allman
Sendmail, Inc.
Abstract: Most spam control mechanisms today are based on analysis of the content of messages. The logic seems sound: since the spammer is trying to sell you something, there will always be some "call to action" that you can detect. But spammers are not passive pests, but active attackers who adapt to technology updates. Their adaptation has forced simple keyword based approaches to give way to machine learning (ML) algorithms, but even these are becoming less effective as spammers learn tricks to bypass them.
A new generation of spam tools will be based on some information about the identity of the sender, which will in turn require authentication. Several proposals address lightweight, domain-based authentication algorithms in various ways, notably DomainKeys, Caller Id, and SPF.
After a brief overview of the various anti-spam technology proposals, this talk will discuss why authentication-based tools are becoming popular, how the various major proposals work, the pluses and minuses of each, and further steps to leverage authentication.
Quick Bio: Eric Allman is the author of the Sendmail program. In addition to writing sendmail, he also authored syslog, tse, the troff -me macros, and trek. Allman is a former member of the Board of Directors of USENIX and currently serves as the CTO of Sendmail, Inc. Allman holds an MS degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Marshall Kirk McKusick
Abstract: FreeBSD project started with the freely-redistributable BSD-Lite released by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. The CSRG spent over a decade developing the system and evolved a core set of tools and procedures enabling extensive community development of the system. The FreeBSD project has continued to evolve these tools and techniques so that they can now support thousands of developers and hundreds of committers. This talk will trace the development of these tools and techniques from the early days of the CSRG to their present state in the FreeBSD project.
Quick Bio: Marshall Kirk McKusick was responsible for the development and release of 4.3BSD and 4.4BSD, has written numerous articles and books, has contributed to textbooks, developed the Soft Updates feature used in BSD filesystems, and teaches technical classes on BSD internals and the history of Unix. McKusick is a past president of the Usenix Association and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley.