"Using the Internet Pseudonymously III: It's Alive!"

Presented at DEF CON 8 (2000), July 29, 2000, 4 p.m. (50 minutes).

The Freedom Network from Zero-Knowledge Systems allows users to maintain their privacy while on the Internet (WWW, email, IRC, etc.) by giving them cryptographically-protected pseudonyms (``nyms''). Not even Zero-Knowledge knows the identities behind the nyms (hence the name).

Freedom has been up, running, and available for download since December. In this session, I will talk about the privacy-enhancing technology behind Freedom, what we've learned in deploying it to the world, and how various other groups have reacted.

Presenters:

• Ian Goldberg - Zero-Knowledge Systems
  Ian Goldberg is Chief Scientist and Head Cypherpunk of Zero-Knowledge Systems, a Canadian company producing Internet privacy software for consumers. He is simultaneously completing his PhD from UC Berkeley in the field of Computer Security and Privacy. Ian has in the past been known to find security holes in Netscape's SSL implementation, to break cryptographic algorithms used in GSM cell phones, and to throw a lot of parties.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-8/defcon-8-post.html#Ian Goldberg
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 8/DEF CON 8 video/DEF CON 8 - Ian Goldberg - Using The Internet Pseudonymously 3 Its Alive.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51ziFbiosBM

Similar Presentations:

• The Next HOPE (2010) / The Freedom Box: How to Reclaim Privacy on the Web
• DEF CON 7 (1999) / Zer0knowledge Network (zks.net) Using the Internet Pseudonymously: One Year Later
• DEF CON 6 (1998) / Explaining the concepts behind ZKS's anonymous network cloud