Presented at
Black Hat Europe 2014,
Oct. 16, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
(60 minutes)
The Internet is no longer trustworthy, having been compromised by bad actors across the globe. Current proposals to work around a compromised Internet rely upon encrypted transport links, mesh networks, or harassing users for being unable to use GPG safely. Each of these strategies fails in different ways that inevitably lead to information leakage or - in the extreme case - death. Endrun, by contrast, takes NASA's Disruption-Tolerant Networking project from a laboratory experiment to a functional system that supports user-friendly encryption in hostile environments. Endrun embraces the nearly-unlimited throughput of a disk-laden station wagon and creates a reliable, eventually-consistent communications system ideal for activists, refugees, and trolls.
Presenters:
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Grant Dobbe
- NuCivic, Inc.
Grant Dobbe is Lead Security Engineer for NuCivic, Inc. He has been working with the Drupal content management system since 2006, and has consulted for Harvard Business School, the US Agency for International Development, and the New York State Education Department. His copious free time is divided between his very patient wife, his not-so-patient cat, an ever-growing pile of library books, and a passion for building dodgy steampunk carnival games. He's also a ham radio operator (KC9WZA), tenor, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Ghana 08-10), homebrewer, and surprisingly decent cook.
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Brendan O'Connor
- Leviathan Security Group
Brendan O'Connor is a Senior Security Consultant at Leviathan Security Group in Seattle, WA. His personal research focuses primarily on enabling broad access to security and privacy through development of disposable computing and sensing tools; toward that end, he completed two DARPA Cyber Fast Track contracts (2012 and 2013) on distributed control systems and large-scale data visualization. He is also a 2014 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he focused on Criminal and International Law. He's taught military information warfare, played the violin, transmitted on amateur radio (K3QB), and tried to convince his cats not to eat him when he dies.
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