Crypto and Privacy Village·22 min
Yael Grauer
Critiques viral but ineffective cybersecurity advice, highlighting practical, foundational defensive measures to mitigate high-likelihood digital threats.
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Crypto and Privacy Village DC33
Las Vegas Convention Center · 8–10 August 2025 · 8 talks
Crypto and Privacy Village at DEF CON 33 explores applied cryptography, surveillance defense, digital privacy technologies, and post-quantum readiness. Talks cover RNG backdoors, AI shadow data leakage, decentralized protocols, and reconfigurable HSM architectures.
1–8 of 8 talks
Crypto and Privacy Village·48 min
Patrick Walsh
Demonstrates model inversion and embedding inversion attacks against LLMs and RAG systems, showing how sensitive personal data can be extracted from vector databases.
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Crypto and Privacy Village·54 min
The Gold Bug Team
Psychoholics puzzle solvers share stories and insights from organizing and competing in DEF CON contests, CTFs, and escape rooms.
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Crypto and Privacy Village·55 min
Shaanan Cohney
Examines historical vulnerabilities in cryptographic random number generator standards and explores how flawed algorithms have been introduced into public specifications.
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Crypto and Privacy Village·23 min
Emily Fane · Abdel Sy Fane
Introduces the Quantum Readiness Assurance Maturity Model (QRAMM), an open-source framework assessing organizational agility for post-quantum migrations.
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Crypto and Privacy Village·25 min
Pablo Trujillo
Presents an FPGA-based reconfigurable Hardware Security Module architecture capable of post-deployment updates to support evolving cryptographic standards.
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Crypto and Privacy Village·21 min
4dw@r3
Exposes server-side data harvesting techniques developed by digital marketing agencies to track consumers across smart TVs, devices, and ISPs without cookies.
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Crypto and Privacy Village·23 min
Katelyn Bowden · Paul Miller
Covers updates, architectural fundamentals, and newly released privacy-preserving applications built upon the decentralized Veilid framework.
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