sec-t 2024
I attended the security conference sec-t 2024 in Stockholm the other week. I held a presentation during the Community Event, Wednesday September 11: "Verifying the Tillitis TKey".
The TKey uses a novel way of helping guarantee hardware supply chain security to the end-user. During the end-phase of production we at Tillitis run a device app, where the TKey automatically creates a unique identity inspired by TCG DICE and then sign and publish data about this identity. The identity and the signature can be independently verified at any time by a user to help verify that the TKey hasn't been tampered with.
Here's the repo to the tool we use during signing and that users use for verification:
https://github.com/tillitis/tkey-verification/
As always, it's open source.
A recording is available on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWjj-yoz90M
Sorry about the Youtube link, but sec-t doesn't provide any other media archive. Incidentally, it seems I can't watch Youtube from my workstation at home anymore: "Sign in to prove you're not a bot". Ha! Like I would do that?
I was incredibly nervous before and during my talk to the point of stuttering and mangling words, but did the presentation without script in front of my biggest audience so far. 1250+ tickets sold, but this was during the Community Day which was open to the public. Also livestreamed. Aaaaaah!
I stayed at the rather fancy Hotel Rival. sec-t paid for it! They had booked me in a Superior but I was upgraded to a Deluxe Balcony room. That was very nice. I now also know what "Turndown Service" means. A strange service. I asked them to please skip my room.
Very nice breakfast at Rival, even for an allergic vegan like me.
I attended sec-t's Thursday night party for just a couple of hours. Instead me and two friends brought some Security Police merch to the libertarian Frihetsfronten's monthly pub meeting. Got a lot of giggles. Frihetsfronten people are not my kind of anarchists, but they're usually fun to hang out with. Remember Tritnaha and Docklands?
Spoke to some very nice and interesting people both backstage and while milling around on the conference. The speaker's dinner was a nice touch.
Of course the train home was slightly late, but that was OK. My boss had it much worse going Stockholm-Gothenburg, what with all the repairs going on on the tracks.
Written by MC on Pungenday, the 44 day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3190 ().