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Cipherspaces/Darknets

Adrian Crenshaw Irongeek

Adrian Crenshaw Irongeek details adrian Crenshaw "Irongeek" - Cipherspaces/Darknets: An Overview Of Attack Strategie Darknets/Cipherspaces such as Tor and I2P have been covered before in great detail.

Summary

Architecture and Background

Adrian Crenshaw "Irongeek" - Cipherspaces/Darknets: An Overview Of Attack Strategie Darknets/Cipherspaces such as Tor and I2P have been covered before in great detail.

Vulnerability Analysis

Sometimes it can be hard to follow attack strategies that have been used against them as the papers written on the topic have been academic and abstract.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

What this talk will attempt to do is step back and give an overview of the topic in a manner hopefully more conducive to the understanding of security practitioners, giving more concrete examples.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

While little to nothing in this talk will be "new and groundbreaking" it should lead to a better understanding of how encrypted anonymizing networks can be subverted to reveal identities. Adrian Crenshaw has worked in the IT industry for the last thirteen years. He runs the information security website Irongeek.com, which specializes in videos and articles that illustrate how to use various pen-testing and security tools. Twitter: @irongeek_adc

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