[Pkg-auth-maintainers] Interested in Debian Security Project for Gsoc 2013

[Trung Hieu Nguyen]

Dear Mr. Daniel Pocock,

I am sorry for late reply as I was kind of busy in the last week. I really
hope that you do not mind and continue to guide me along the way.

There are quite some of those groups around the campus including:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxnus/
http://nushackers.org/
I sometimes participated in their events in my spare time only.

I have installed Debian as well as played with dynalogin for a while.
After reading the included documentations and looking at the package C
source codes, I can understand roughly what can the package do and how it
works in principle.
However, as it comes with lots of the shell scripts and other stuffs, I
don't really know how to start with the implementation of those package in
general, From what I know, the core of the packages are the included C
codes (as informed in the documentations) and the included Shell scripts as
well as others just for wrapping up and encapsulation right?
Could you please give me more instruction on what can I do next in order to
prepare the proposals? I have completed all the steps specified in your
blogs and have some tweak here and there. However, I do not dare to change
something much as I have not really understand how those components
collaborate with each other to create a package.

Hope to hear from you soon. Your help is very appreciated.
Thanks and best regards,
Nguyen Trung Hieu.


2013/4/8 Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.com.au>

> On 07/04/13 07:46, Trung Hieu Nguyen wrote:
> > Dear Mr. Daniel,
> >
> > I have not met any other Debian members or free software developers
> > personally as I did not have a chance to do so.
> >
> That's OK, it is not essential - I just want to give you every possible
> way to get involved and maximise your chance of participating.
>
> Are there any other Linux User Groups on your campus, or other more
> general groups outside Debian who meet in Singapore?
>
>
> > I have contributed to some project but it's small scale and for school
> > support only. I have not touched big scale open source project
> > although I always wanted to do so. That's why I'm  looking for a
> > chance in GSoC with Debian this year :)
> >
> > I also have not used any security packages in Debian/ or either I have
> > used it unconsciously. Could you give me some specific list of
> > packages so that I can have a head-start?
>
>
> Please try the dynalogin package, it is relatively self-contained.
>
> I've also put some notes on my blog today, this will definitely help you:
>
> http://danielpocock.com/google-summer-of-code-tips-for-students
>
> Where I give the example for resiprocate, you could try doing exactly
> the same thing with dynalogin - please feel free to try it and email any
> questions back to us on this list
>
>
>
>


-- 
Mr. Nguyen Trung Hieu, Ryan
Department of Computer Science,
School of Computing,
National University of Singapore.
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