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Kai Koenig (Wellington, NZ)

Kai is a German Software Solutions Architect living in New Zealand by choice but working internationally. He has just started a new venture as a self-employed consultant for Adobe and other web technologies under the brand Ventego Creative. Before that he spent a few years working as a Software Solutions Architect for Marcomedia and Adobe partner companies in Europe and New Zealand.

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Cryptography for developers

When building web applications, we use regularly use aspects of cryptography, for instance https/SSL or encrypting URL parameters so that users can't easily change them and break your app. Hardly anyone knows about the actually quite important details of cryptography though. This talk will fill your knowledge gap without having to have obtained a PhD in Math (which certainly would help though :) More...

Speaker Details

Kai started his Adobe career some years ago when using Dreamweaver 2 to build HTML web pages during an university class. From there he lectured in Java before moving into software development using ColdFusion, Java, Flex and other technologies.

Kai is an Advanced Certified ColdFusion Developer since version 5 and an Adobe Master Instructor for the Flex, ColdFusion, Connect and LiveCycle curriculum. He holds a Master of Science degree in Maths, Computer Science and Philosophy and always tries to find a way of digging deeper into the theories of language and parser construction ;)

Besides that Kai is blogging as Agent K in Blog in Black, regularly publishing reviews and technical articles on Adobe technology in several German IT-magazines and enjoying his life in New Zealand jointly with his wife Diane.

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