"*banging fists on table* state machines state machines [keynote]" - william (purplecon 2019)
Channel: purplecon
Date: 2019-10-16

william

Writing software is hard. Really hard. Almost impossible one would say. We can see this from ‹infinite list of security issues here›. As we all are walking talking fleshy bug emitting machines that sometimes emit good code as a lucky side effect, we need all the help we can get to increase this luck factor. 

State machines help us to reason about our programs, how they work, how they wont work, and why they didn't work - and from there, how we can design programs to never fail at all. There are state machines all around us. Let me show you how we can use them in code for security and robustness.

Area and assumed knowledge:
Area - Secure software development. 
Assumptions - Some programming knowledge, but demos will be in Rust and C. I will not use advanced or tricky code for any demo to make it as accessible as possible.

Wed Oct 16 11:10:00 2019 at Plenary Room