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Hackers.mu members participating remotely in the IETF 100 Hackathon

Hackers.mu (stylized in all lowercase) is a group of developers from Mauritius who are focused on computer security, IETF standards and Linux and Open Source Software adoption. They have worked on implementing TLS 1.3 in Linux and Open Source Software during the IETF 100 Hackathon as part of the TLS Working Group.[1][2][3] They have also prepared high school students for Google Code-in in 2016 which marked the first time that Mauritius participated.[4][5][6] In 2017, they trained another group of high school students, leading to the first grand prize winner for Mauritius.[7][8] During IETF 101, Hackers.mu acted as TLS 1.3 champions, and continued to work on application integration support.[9][10][11][12] In June 2018, Hackers.mu organized a hackathon with codename "Operation JASK" to fix sigspoof3 in a number of open source projects.[13] In July 2018, Hackers.mu participated in IETF 102 hackathon as TLS 1.3 champions to work on inter-operability and applications support and http 451.[14] Additionally, they have been active in authoring IETF Standards such as RFC 8270.

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  1. ^ "Mauritian code-cutters to help deliver TLS 1.3". Retrieved 2017-11-14.
  2. ^ "Participating in the IETF Hackathon from Mauritius | IETF Blog". www.ietf.org. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  3. ^ "Informatique : des Mauriciens contribuent à l'évolution d'Internet". Defimedia (in French). 2017-11-01. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  4. ^ "Google Code-in: Two Mauritian students among the finalists". Defimedia (in French). 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
  5. ^ "Taking the pulse of Google Code-in 2016". Google Open Source Blog. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
  6. ^ "Hackers.mu leads Mauritians for the Google code-in". hackers.mu. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  7. ^ "Announcing the Winners of Google Code-in 2017". Google Open Source Blog. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  8. ^ "Un membre de hackers.mu remporte le Grand Prix Drupal de Google Code-in". hackers.mu. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  9. ^ "101hackathon – Meeting Wiki". trac.ietf.org. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  10. ^ IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force (2018-03-18), IETF Hackathon in London, retrieved 2018-03-19
  11. ^ "Hurrah! TLS 1.3 is here. Now to implement it and put it into software". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  12. ^ "Hacking from Paradise: Attending IETF Hackathon Remotely". IETF Journal. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
  13. ^ "Pass gets a fail: Simple Password Store suffers GnuPG spoofing bug". Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  14. ^ IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force (2018-07-15), IETF102-HACKATHON-20180715-1400, retrieved 2018-07-18
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