Digital Emblems: When markings are required under international law, but you don’t have a rattle-can handy

Presented at DEF CON 32 (2024), Aug. 9, 2024, 1:30 p.m. (45 minutes).

There are physical markings that are required under hundreds of different international laws, some governing transport of goods across national borders, some offering humanitarian protections on the battlefield, some seeking to protect the environment or genetic diversity… What they all have in common is that they’re currently represented by visual marks applied to objects. Many of these processes are undergoing “digitalization,” and becoming machine-readable, or electronically-signaled. A standards effort currently underway in the IETF seeks to create a common global marking protocol which would allow open-standards-based devices to scan, cryptographically validate, and display the digital versions of these marks. This session will relate the state of the standards effort, the scope of markings that have been considered thus far, and seek input on security or privacy vulnerabilities which may exist in the proposed standard.

Presenters:

  • Bill Woodcock - Executive Director at Packet Clearing House
    Bill Woodcock is the executive director of Packet Clearing House, the intergovernmental treaty organization that supports the operation of critical Internet infrastructure, including Internet exchange points and the core of the domain name system. Since entering the Internet industry in 1985, Bill has helped establish more than three hundred Internet exchange points. In 1989, Bill developed the anycast routing technique that now protects the domain name system. In 1998 he was one of the principal drivers of California 17538.4, the world’s first anti-spam legislation. Bill was principal author of the Multicast DNS and Operator Requirements of Infrastructure Management Methods IETF drafts. In 2002 he co-founded INOC-DBA, the security-coordination hotline system that interconnects the network operations centers of more than three thousand Internet Service Providers and Security Operations Centers around the world. And in 2007, Bill was one of the two international liaisons deployed by NSP-Sec to the Estonian CERT during the Russian cyber-attack. In 2011, Bill authored the first survey of Internet interconnection agreements, as input to the OECD’s analysis of the Internet economy. Bill served on the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and on the Commission on Caribbean Communications Resilience. He's on the board of directors of the M3AA Foundation, and was on the board of the American Registry for Internet Numbers for fifteen years. Now, Bill’s work focuses principally on the security and economic stability of critical Internet infrastructure.

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