[p2p-hackers] The Fifth HOPE in NYC (fwd from vab at cryptnet.net)

[Greg Newby]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:02:40AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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> From: "V. Alex Brennen" <vab at cryptnet.net>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:24:56 -0400
> To: "Peer-to-peer development." <p2p-hackers at zgp.org>
> Subject: [p2p-hackers] The Fifth HOPE in NYC
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> At The Fifth HOPE a talk will be given on how to break
> anonymity networks. Some commonly used p2p code such as
> Tor and the remailers will be covered.
> 
> I cannot attend the conference.  Is anyone on the list going
> who could report back?  I'm interested to hear if anything
> other than what's already been widely published is covered
> in this talk.

Yes, I'm one of the 5H organizers.  We'll be audio & videotaping,
so eventually you'll be able to get the full story.  I'll try
to write something up afterwards, or email me directly.  From
the description, it's hard to tell whether this will be something
revealing, or just a review of the well-known.
  -- Greg

> I'm working on a p2p anonymity project.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    - VAB
> 
> 
> The Fifth HOPE, NYC July 9-11th, 2004
> http://www.the-fifth-hope.org/
> How To Break Anonymity Networks
> Nick Mathewson
> 
> Today's anonymous communication software (such as Mixmaster, Mixminion, 
> Nymservers, JAP, Tor, Anonymizer, etc.) allows people to communicate 
> while concealing their identities from each other and from external 
> attackers. But no deployed system is strong enough to protect every 
> pattern of user behavior against a sufficiently resourceful adversary, 
> and many of them fall to far simpler attacks. In this talk, Nick will 
> discuss working attacks against today's anonymity networks, drawing from 
> past technical and social attacks on deployed networks and from recent 
> academic research in traffic analysis, stylometry, and mix-net design. 
> He will present defenses to these attacks when such defenses are known 
> to exist.
> 
> Saturday 2300
> Area "B"
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