Presented at
HOPE X (2014),
July 19, 2014, noon
(60 minutes)
SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources. The platform has been deployed and is being actively used by an array of journalistic organizations to provide a secure and usable platform for whistleblowers to get in touch with journalists while protecting their own identity. The talk will begin with a broad overview of the project and then go into more detail: what does the network architecture look like, what does it provide, and what cryptographic primitives are used?
Presenters:
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Yan Zhu
Yan Zhu is a staff technologist at EFF, specializing in projects to protect Internet users' privacy and maximize the use of encryption on the web. She is the lead maintainer of EFF's browser security extension, HTTPS Everywhere.
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William Budington
William Budington is a web application architect at the EFF, and one of the core developers of SecureDrop, an anonymous document submission platform. He is a member of the W3C Web Cryptography Working Group, and is excited to see the web grow as a platform for cryptographic applications.
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Garrett Robinson
Garrett Robinson is the lead developer on SecureDrop. His interest in empowering whistleblowers through technology began when he was involved with environmental activism in Appalachia, and lead to the creation of a whistleblower submission site named Honest Appalachia. He currently works full time as a security and privacy engineer for Mozilla, and previously worked for the EFF.
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