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Tor and Blocking Resistance

Roger Dingledine

Roger Dingledine explores tor and blocking resistance at DEF CON 15, examining cyber-policy and practical defenses.

Summary

Architecture and Background

Roger Dingledine: Tor and blocking-resistance Tor project, an anonymous communication system for the Internet that has been funded by both the US Navy and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Vulnerability Analysis

Roger Dingledine is a security and privacy researcher.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

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.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

He is best known for leading the Tor project, an anonymous communication system for the Internet that has been funded by both the US Navy and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 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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Main Stage·49 min

  • DEF CON
  • Policy
  • Date: Aug 2008
  • Location: Las Vegas

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