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Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) 1.0 (17050 views)
Solar Designer
Nullcon Berlin 2025 (September 4-5, 2025, Berlin, Germany)

Password cracking: past, present, future (52113 views)
Solar Designer
OffensiveCon 2024 (May 10-11, 2024, Berlin, Germany)

Linux kernel remote logging: approaches, challenges, implementation (18273 views)
Solar Designer
BSidesZagreb 2024 (March 1, 2024, Zagreb, Croatia)

15+ years of oss-security (34494 views)
Solar Designer
SSTIC 2023 (June 7-9, 2023, Rennes, France)
BSidesLjubljana 2023 (June 16, 2023, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) in a nutshell (56764 views)
Adam "pi3" Zabrocki
ArcticCon 2023 (October 12, 2023, Anchorage, Alaska)
OSTconf 2020 (August 10-13, 2020, online)

Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) under the hood (33095 views)
Adam "pi3" Zabrocki
CONFidence 2018 (June 4, 2018, Krakow, Poland)

Haswell metaprogramming (31322 views)
Solar Designer
BSidesLjubljana 2017 (March 10, 2017, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

yescrypt: large-scale password hashing (61924 views)
Solar Designer
BSidesLjubljana 2017 (March 10, 2017, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

john-devkit: specialized compiler for hash cracking (36985 views)
Aleksey Cherepanov
PHDays 2015 (May 26-27, 2015, Moscow, Russia)

Is infosec a game? (50607 views)
Solar Designer
ZeroNights 2014 (November 13-14, 2014, Moscow, Russia)

Energy-efficient bcrypt cracking (100733 views)
Katja Malvoni, Solar Designer, Josip Knezovic
FSEC 2014 (September 17-19, 2014, Varazdin, Croatia)
USENIX WOOT '14 (August 19, 2014, San Diego, CA)
Skytalks 2014 (August 8-10, 2014, Las Vegas, NV)
Passwords^14 (August 5-6, 2014, Las Vegas, NV)
Passwords^13 (December 2-3, 2013, Bergen, Norway)

yescrypt: password hashing scalable beyond bcrypt and scrypt (70787 views)
Solar Designer
PHDays 2014 (May 21-22, 2014, Moscow, Russia)

Looking inside the (Drop) box (59238 views)
(Security Analysis of Dropbox)
Dhiru Kholia, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn
USENIX WOOT '13 (August 13, 2013, Washington, D.C.)

Distributable probabilistic candidate password generators (30303 views)
Simon Marechal
Passwords^12 (December 3-5, 2012, Oslo, Norway)

Automatic wordlists mangling rules generation (43919 views)
Simon Marechal
Passwords^12 (December 3-5, 2012, Oslo, Norway)

New developments in password hashing: ROM-port-hard functions (54428 views)
Solar Designer
ZeroNights 2012 (November 19-20, 2012, Moscow, Russia)

Password hashing at scale (44178 views)
Solar Designer
YaC 2012 (October 1, 2012, Moscow, Russia)

Password security: past, present, future (159941 views)
Solar Designer, Simon Marechal
Passwords^12 (December 3-5, 2012, Oslo, Norway)
PHDays 2012 (May 30-31, 2012, Moscow, Russia)

IPv6: What, Why, How (150384 views)
Jen Linkova aka Furry
Updated: October 15, 2009 (online version: index page, headings, text-only pages)
Updated: March 20, 2009 (Revision 1.0)
Initial release: March 18, 2009

Openwall GNU/*/Linux (128061 views)
Solar Designer, Rafal Wojtczuk
Open Source Security (March 17-18, 2005, Warsaw, Poland)
FOSDEM 2003 (February 8-9, 2003, Brussels, Belgium)
CanSecWest / core02 (May 1-3, 2002, Vancouver, Canada)
NordU2002 (February 18-22, 2002, Helsinki, Finland)

SSH Traffic Analysis (80467 views)
Solar Designer, Dug Song
NordU2002 (February 18-22, 2002, Helsinki, Finland)
HAL2001 (August 10-12, 2001, Enschede, Netherlands)

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