SafeWeb's Triangle Boy: IP spoofing and strong encryption in service of a free Internet

Presented at DEF CON 9 (2001), July 13, 2001, 6 p.m. (50 minutes).

SafeWeb is an encrypted (SSL) anonymous proxy service, used approximately 100 million times per month by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Triangle Boy is an Open Source program that lets volunteers turn their PCs into entry points into the SafeWeb network, thereby foiling censorship in countries like China and Iran. Triangle Boy uses IP spoofing and innovative packet routing to minimize the load on volunteer machines. I discuss SafeWeb's goals and technologies, its involvement with the CIA through In-Q-Tel (the agency's venture fund) and the Internet as a catalyst for social transformation in China.

Presenters:

• Stephen Hsu - CEO / co-founder of SafeWeb
  Stephen Hsu is the CEO and co-founder of SafeWeb. He is currently on leave from his position as a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Oregon. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Yale University, and a research fellow at Harvard. His research specialty is quantum field theory and its applications to particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and a BS from Caltech.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-9/defcon-9-speakers.html#Stephen Hsu

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