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Barry was more funny than usually!
I don't think I laughed so much as when the videos began in this session. Barry will be sorely missed yet he still managed to complete his session and coped well with the barrage of mickey-takes and corrective outbursts from Jon Skeet.
Peerless Barry Dorrans, but why were those guys wearing Stephen Hawking T-shirts at the end?
Shame the entertainment was interrupted by some guy speaking :-)
High entertainment value, amazed Barry did as well as he did to continue all things considered :)
I didn't like his presentation style so much - he kepy interrupting it with videos plugging his new book!
Barry was entertaining as usual, and did a marvellous job of covering the topic, despite interruptions. He'll be missed.
The speaker did an excellent job of continuing the presentation despite the 'conditions' he found himself in! A fun session although for a complete encryption noob, it went a bit fast. Some examples of how you would use the encryption would've been welcome.
It was fun to watch the other DDD presenters take the mickey out of Barry. As lets face it, he deserves it. I think I may be scared for life watching him on the Crystal Maze though. I like the idea of burning his book though.
Brilliant session, ruined by some guy interrupting and talking about "hashing", "encryption keys" and "condoms".. can the gentleman in question be banned for next year's event? Thanks. In all seriousness, it was a good overview of cryptography, and if it had been 3 weeks earlier it would have saved me quite a few hours of research on a few points :-)
Covered some topics I only have a passing familiarity with, good to get some insight into various encryption methods and how to apply them. Good fun session, (including all the various pranks :)
Barry is a marmite presenter, you either love his quirky style or .... It worked for me. The farewell video interuptions were amusing but as I'm not a community leader or in the 'gang' some of the in jokes were lost on me. Made me chuckle though.
A fun session with the hijacking of his session by other members of the DDD team. What he did manage to show us was interesting.
Good overview of the basics, humiliation of the speaker was hilarious!
Talk was good and the session was a good laugh also. A topic I know a bit about but still some new and useful info.
Very good session - as much for the comedy aspect as the content. Knew most of the crypto bits, so good to confirm that my knowledge appeared correct. One minor thing, his byte array comparison implementation that he showed isn't a secure implementation as a comparison failure would exit the function early - i.e. it does not compare every element. Therefore timing analysis of the code could allow leakage of the data being compared to (e.g. first 6 of 20 bytes correct). For more info see http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/ Comparison functions used in security features should have a fixed execution time and path - so that a comparison failure executes in the same time that a successful comparison does. Excellent fun session though - great to see the extra videos too!
As ever a very humorous but serious, informative session from Barry, who coped remarkably well with various interruptions(which were excellent btw). Found this session very, very useful and am off to buy his book ;-) (Well was going to buy his book before the session anyway but Computer Manuals sold out). The UK Community is losing a great speaker and community lead, however I would like to wish Barry all the best of luck for his move Stateside.
Mostly stuff I was already aware of, but useful to have it all in one package. The highlight was obviously Barry himself, who's clearly a softie in more than one sense. Thanks to all those who embarrassed him on camera.Barry Dorrans - the man, the legend. Knowing in advance that he was going to be disrupted I went into this not expecting to pick much up. But Barry's a rockstar and doesn't let stuff like that faze him - he manfully continued to present in the face of typos (his) and corrections to his code (by Jon Skeet). But I did pick up plenty - where you want to encrypt, you can just use a hash cos they're the same thing. You can reuse encryption keys, you just have to wash them out first.
Aside from the spelling mistakes this was an excellent session on a difficult topic. Despite all the interruptions Barry managed to get through all the material and teach as well as entertain. A great way to end the day.
A great session which delivered in many ways despite the multiple external interruptions. Commedic value was a great value add to this session. Barry continued like a pro despite it all. Good luck at your new job Barry.
An entertaining and informative session. It has been 3 years since I've attended a lecture regarding ASP.NET / software security, I was unaware that using SHA1 was now suggested potentially unsafe! I had also not been salting my encryption as much as he suggested. Overall very useful, although also entertaining - with the mickey taking happening throughout the session! My only complaint was that I didn't get a free copy of his ASP.net security book! I was cold last night and needed something to burn on the fire.
Coped well with presentation hijacks :) Really good overview of crypto services in .NET framework... sure there was some subliminal messages in there me needing his book.
Barry did a good job considering the interruptions he had to handle. A great farewell to the only person to have spoken at every DDD event. I'd give him six stars for skills - that he kept going through such heckling was amazing. To be fair, I only went to see what would happen to him, as I've seen this talk before.
Most entertaining session of the day, and the content was good too.
a little too much messing around so we missed alot of the session saying goodbye to barry!!!
I definitely liked this! Do I have to go Seattle for more of this??!!!
I've already covered most of this loads of times at Uni, and have seen Barrys presentation before, so it was not overly useful to me! It was great fun however and always good to have a refresher. I wish Barry good luck in Redmond!
Barry gave himself an excellent leaving presentation, he did very well except the spelling mistakes (haha) and still managed to put on an excellent session even though the screens were hijacked multiple times. Bought Barry's book. Makes good kindling.
An excellent session, improved even further by the various japes that occurred during it :-D
Hard to judge based on the interruptions, but he still managed to get through the entire presentation so I consider that to be job done! A wide range of topics covered and I certainly learned a few things. I might even go and buy the book. Maybe.
While Crystal Maze is self-evidently entertaining, the many interjections for MVP in-jokes wore a bit thin.
A little hard to concentrate because of all of the jokes flying around but I'm glad it was a good send off :-)
I'll miss Barry Dorrans
A bit side tracked by Barrys leaving do. This presentation was very similar to the one he gave at WebDDD so I didnt really learn anything new to be honest
Fun talk, again great presentation skills, but a lot of this wasn't new to me, so less useful - not really a criticism though. Very enjoyable, would def. look at buying the book as a result too.
Great send off. Well done Barry and all the other DDD team for making us laugh!
One of the highlight of the day, fun session on a hard to digest topic
The presentation itself was a very good overview which somehow ramped from simple hashes to complex handshake and encryption algorithms without getting anyone lost. Pity it was so frequently interrupted as it was fascinating, but it was also funny regardless.
A think he was side-tracked due to him going across the pond. I would have liked to have seen more usefull content. (e.g.) how to approach web site security like a bank would? Not just going through the menu of Encrption techniques. Show an example of why or when these techniques would/wouldn't be used in the real world. We are all concerned with security, and I really wanted to gain something from this session. I suppose I will just have to buy Barry's book and hope he's covered it there. Not to waffle on, Barry is a great and funny guy.
This was a very interesting session and made more enjoyable by the good luck/goodbye messages from his fellow speakers. I'm sure Barry will be missed.
Impressive that Barry kept going even though he kept getting interrupted. :)
Definitely the most fun session of the day, mainly due to the gags in between Barry's slides! It was a great end to the event. However, anyone trying to follow the content of his talk would have found it difficult.
I saw Barry last year as DDD, and was impressed with the tone and pace of the presentation, i left feeling empowered and entertained at the same time. I felt this time round that the presentation hadnt changed much, and not much though had gone into it. I appreciate Barry has been writing a book and look forward to buying my gran a copy to keep her warm this winter.(joke) It will be a shame to see Barry go to Seattle and therefore lose his spot at DDD hes a very talented guy (even if a little egocentric)
Actually, against the odds, Barry managed to get in some useful information on encryption. I'd have liked a bit more focus on the usage scenarios and less on the mechanics. And why so many references to WCF? It's not like anyone uses it...
Could have done with showing applications of the examples in the real world rather than just the factual examples. Great presentation, I obtained a lot of knowledge from this session and it answered my questions around XML encryption
I also enjoyed this session. great introduction to .net cryptography. I found it very informative. Maybe a bit more content could have been given due to interuptions.
I think this session was the most entertaining one but it wasn't more useful since most of the time it presents coding rather than how we can use encryption in real world
Besides the interruptions, this session had a good level of beginner encryption knowledge. It is hard not to take something away from even such a light touch on the world. Obviously, it is hard to say "This must be done this way" as security is so personal to the project but some real world cases might have made the details more self explanatory.
Sorry, I found picking up the subject matter (which I was looking forward to) drowned out by the constant interuptions.
It is a shame Barry will not be able to speak at future events
Bye bye Barry, come back next year ;-) The interludes were funny.
So yes, I apologise for the interruptions – I had expected something, just not during the presentation. For those of you that tried hard to get something out of and failed I’ll be willing to do a series of blog posts, just tell me what you want in the comments and as I get organised in Redmond I’ll start a little blog series around the topic. I am a little confused by those who say they’ve seen it before – it was a brand new presentation. Weird!