January's topic will be: Encryption.

This month, Joshua Thijssen will tell us all about the ins and outs of HTTPS.

Schedule 
19:00: Welcome Drinks  
19:30 - 20:30: "The first few milliseconds of HTTPS"  
20:30 - 20:45: Raffle  
20:45: Social, drinks and food.

Speaker: Joshua Thijssen 
Joshua Thijssen is a freelance consultant, developer and trainer. His daily work consists of maintaining code bases, working on different projects and helping other to achieve higher standards in both coding and thinking. He is the lead developer of Saffire - a web/system language, author of the PHP|Architect book "Mastering the SPL library", founder of the Dutch Web Alliance and regular speaker at national and international conferences.

Talk: "The first few milliseconds of HTTPS" 
What happens when your browser connects to a HTTPS secure site? We all know it has to do something with certificates, blue and green address bars and sometimes your browser will give warnings which we normally click away. But what actually happens under the hood? In this talk I will give a step-by-step explanation on the first few hundred milliseconds during a connection to HTTPS. We will talk about master secrets, shared secrets, cipher suites, x509 certificates and why secure does not (always) mean secure. After this talk you not only can use HTTPS correctly, but also understand their basic foundations as well.

Raffle 
We got some awesome stuff to give away this month, so make sure you attend another awesome meetup!