Five-College Speaker Series on Information Assurance
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Roger Dingledine
The Free Haven Project
Anonymous communication for the U.S. Department of Defense...and you.
November, 28 2005
3:30pm-4:30pm
Room 151, Computer Science Research Bldg. |
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Abstract:
What do the United States Department of Defense and the Electronic
Frontier Foundation have in common? They have both funded the development
of Tor (tor.eff.org), a free-software onion routing network that helps
people around the world use the Internet in safety.
The public Tor network has over 250 servers on five continents, and
averages over 200Mbit/s of traffic. Our users include ordinary citizens
who want protection from identity theft and prying corporations,
corporations who want to look at a competitor's website in private,
and soldiers and aid workers in the Middle East who need to contact
their home servers without fear of physical harm.
I'll give an overview of the Tor architecture, and talk about why you'd
want to use it, what security it provides, and some of our open research
problems.
Biography:
Roger Dingledine is a security and privacy researcher. While at
MIT he developed Free Haven, one of the early peer-to-peer systems
that emphasized resource management while retaining anonymity for its
users. He has consulted for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the
US Navy to design and develop systems for anonymity and traffic analysis
resistance. He organizes academic conferences on anonymity, speaks at
such events as Blackhat, Defcon, O'Reilly ETech, Toorcon, 21C3, and What
the Hack, and also does tutorials on anonymity for national and foreign
law enforcement.
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