Presented at
The Fifth HOPE (2004),
July 9, 2004, 6 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Trying to keep government out of everyone's phone calls is a lost battle. What little legislation we had to protect us will be removed in the next few years and ignored until then. Storing the content of all phone calls forever is now affordable, even for smaller countries. Strong end-to-end cryptography on a massive scale is the only answer. But where are the phones? CryptoPhone makes a phone based on a commercially available PDA/phone that features an open protocol and published source code. And there's a free Windows client if you don't want to buy the phone! The talk will outline precisely how it works, what's next, and how you can help.
Presenters:
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Barry Wels / The Key
as Barry Wels
Barry "The Key" Wels has many passions. Lockpicking, safecracking, voice encryption, radio monitoring, and bug sweeping (TSCM) are a few of them. He spends most of his time on the Cryptophone project (http://www.cryptophone.de/) and on Toool, the Dutch lockpick sportgroup he is chairman of (http://www.toool.nl/).
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Rop Gonggrijp
Rop Gonggrijp was editor and publisher of the Dutch hacker magazine Hack-Tic from 1989 to 1993. He also cofounded XS4ALL (one of the first European ISPs) and cofounded ITSX (a computer security consultancy). Along with partner Barry Wels, Rop initiated work on the CryptoPhone in 2001.
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