Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:44:28 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Volunteer as junior code auditor (was: Re: Time to redirect! (Was: Re: Topics for -security vs. topics for -audit)) Message-ID: <v0420550fb46aed7db5f4@[195.238.21.204]> In-Reply-To: <199911301939.VAA17777@gratis.grondar.za> References: <199911301939.VAA17777@gratis.grondar.za>
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At 9:39 PM +0200 1999/11/30, Mark Murray wrote: > Please could you volunteer for each of the following classes by sending > a mail to this list with your choice of subject(s) (more than one mail > is OK): > > "Volunteer as code auditor" > "Volunteer to help with web page setup" > ...&c. I'd like to volunteer as a junior code auditor. > Please write a _very_short_ resume describing why you should do > this job in the body of the mail (purely for reference). Eventually > you'll land up on the rogue's gallery as "one of the team". I've been doing Unix SA work for over ten years, and using Unix=20 for over fifteen. Unfortunately, I haven't done any real programming=20 since college, although I'd like to take this opportunity to get back=20 into it [-1]. I have done relatively light shell and Perl scripting,=20 however. I like to consider myself at least passingly familiar with=20 cryptography in general [0], and the semi-paranoid approach to=20 computer security [1]. For more details, if you send me private e-mail I can give you an=20 URL the previous version of my American-style r=E9sum=E9 [2], which also=20 has links to other versions of the same document, as well as the=20 expanded European-style curriculum vitae. If you can either give me automated tools to run, or procedures=20 that I can follow in order to do some of the "grunt" work, I'll be=20 glad to do it. I've got a machine here where I think I can run=20 -CURRENT [3], so that I can do some first-hand testing of the=20 procedures that would be applied. If this isn't the sort of help you folks need, that's fine. I=20 want to help in any way that I can, but if the skills I have aren't=20 useful to this phase of the project, I can deal with that. [-1] With luck, I can then take some of this experience and use it=20 to help me implement proper multi-threading in the USENET news server=20 Diablo. [0] I've been to several DC CypherPunk meetings, and have met a=20 number of the local luminaries and invited guests (such as Dave=20 Banisar and Whitfield Diffie), and I believe that I have Carl=20 Ellison's signature on one of the PGP keys I've got floating around. [1] I have had meaningful exchanges with Simson Garfinkel, and=20 Marcus Ranum should even remember my name. [2] Not yet updated to reflect the work at my current employer,=20 although it is not relevant to this project. [3] Although I may need some help getting it there. ;-) --=20 These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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