Cryptography in PHP: use cases

I finally found the time to upload the slides of my talk “Cryptography in PHP: use cases” presented during the ZendCon 2011 conference in Santa Clara:

Moreover, I improved the security of the SecureSession PHP class, presented in the demo part of the talk, with the following changes:

• added the authentication to the encryption data using HMAC (encrypt-then-authenticate);
• the random keys are generated using OpenSSL or Mcrypt with mcrypt_create_iv($length, MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM).

You can find the source of this project on my github account.

Manage cloud infrastructures with ZF2 (and ZF1)

Here you can find the slide of my talk “Manage cloud infrastructures in PHP using Zend Framework 2 (and ZF1)” that I did at the International PHP Conference 2011 in Mainz (Germany).

Dutch PHP Conference 2011

I’m just come back from the Dutch PHP Conference 2011 in Amsterdam and I can only say that it was a great conference!

This conference has reinforced in me the importance of meet face to face people, to exchange ideas, feedbacks and why not spend some time chatting and drinking a beer.
I strongly suggest to join, as much as possible, this kind of events. Fortunately, the quantity and quality of PHP conferences is growing year after year, have a look here.

During the DPC 2011 I did a talk about “Strong Cryptography in PHP”, here you can find the slides:

I received some positive feedbacks on this talk (http://joind.in/3246) and this result encourages my idea that pratical cryptography is a very interesting topic for the PHP community. I will try to improve the talk for the next conferences, so please help me with your feedbacks.