Encrypted P2P and VoIP Spaces with CUTLASS

Presented at REcon 2005, June 18, 2005, 9:30 a.m. (60 minutes)

Users on the internet are doing more and more of their daily work over peer-to-peer applications. Existing protocols such as SMTP and IRC are being replaced by peer-to-peer file transfer, voice chat, and text messaging systems. Unfortunately, the popular protocols are not secure, and the secure protocols are not popular. In this talk, we will talk about the security properties of the existing peer-to-peer systems, as well as describing an open-source system in development, CUTLASS. CUTLASS aims to fill the niche for tools powerful and usable enough to be broadly popular, while still providing strong encryption and authentication, all in a BSD-licensed package. It supports encrypted voice, chat, and file transfer. We will be demoing CUTLASS, comparing it to other systems in existence, and talking about future plans for the software.

Presenters:

• Todd MacDermid
  Todd MacDermid has created a wide variety of open-source security tools, including steganographic network tunnels, encrypted mailing lists, and packet-mangling libraries. He has spoken at many conferences, including ToorCon, BlackHat, RubiCon, Notacon, ShmooCon, and HOPE.
• Jack Lloyd
  Jack Lloyd has written a number of somewhat interesting tools and libraries, primarily in the crypto space with a few more general tools here and there. He enjoys coding obscenely weird C++, playing with obsolete hardware, drinking, and overthrowing governments. His website is at http://www.randombit.net/

Links:

• https://infocon.org/cons/REcon/REcon 2005/REcon 2005 videos/todd macdermid encrypted p2p and voip with cutlass.mp4

Similar Presentations:

• DEF CON 21 (2013) / Prowling Peer-to-Peer Botnets After Dark
• ShmooCon I (2005) / CUTLASS - Encrypted, Peer-to-Peer Communications for Everyone
• 30C3 (2013) / Peer Gregorius (Nation of Gondwana)