2018 Pass the SALT

Call for Papers

SALT ?

Pass the SALT (Security And Libre Talks) is a technical, single track conference about Free Software (or Open Format/Protocol) and Security where hackers from many Security and Free Software fields come to share knowledge and cooperate.

Usual Suspects ?

You would like to know what kind of speakers usually submit to this CFP ?

• contributors to Free Software Security Projects,
• researchers who found vulnerability in a Free Software project,
• people who have study the security model of a Free Software project or of an open protocol,
• hackers who played with Security and Free Software :)

You can look at this list of previous years speakers :-) You are (too) shy ? You do not recognize yourself into these descriptions ? PLEASE, GO ON. Just submit and we will exchange with you in a respectful and warm manner :-) Here is how he summarizes his coming this year:

(Hot) Topics ?

We definitively want to have submissions from different Security fields. We want to facilitate interactions between different Security and Free Software communities. You can see an on-going list of previous achievements there : link This year, we would really like to cover :

• privacy free software and issues,
• offensive free software and usages
• and hacking tools/software. All usual Security topics are of course welcome : DFIR, Network, Secure Coding etc. And, obviously, if you have a brilliant and/or “strange” idea, just SUBMIT !

Single requirement: speaking about (Free Software OR Open Standard) AND Security :-)

The Format

You can propose:

• a long talk (40min - questions/answers included),
• a short talk (20min - questions/answers included),
• or a workshop.