IC3 Meetup Hosted by JP Morgan – “DC-Nets and Anonymity Protection”

** Venue capacity is extremely limited and walk-ins will not be allowed to enter. We kindly ask that you respect the community and only RSVP if you will be attending **

Schedule:
6:30-7pm - Arrival and Networking
7pm - Presentation

Abstract: Anonymous communication is important for dissidents, activists, whistleblowers, journalists, and any individuals that might be under surveillance by other parties. Dining Cryptographer Networks (DC-Nets) provide the strongest anonymity protections and the lowest possible latency of any current cryptographic solution. Unfortunately DC-Nets are faced with three fatal flaws that prevent their deployment in the real world: prohibitive bandwidth consumption, denial of service attacks (DoS) by participants, and low fault tolerance. In this talk, I will discuss DC Nets and how they work, and then present Howl, our new open source project and decentralized anonymity network that solves these issues to make DC-Nets usable in the real world. We leverage a new aggregation protocol for bandwidth and fault tolerance issues, and use trusted execution environments (TEEs) to prevent DoS. All privacy is handled by the DC-net protocol and at no point does broadcast privacy rely on the trusted execution environment or aggregation network.

About the Speaker: Tyler Kell is a Research Engineer at Cornell Tech & the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3) in New York City. In a prior life, before becoming a researcher, he worked as a penetration tester and security consultant.

Registration: Advance registration before October 24 is required for access to JPM. Upon your arrival, Lobby security will send you to the 13th floor conference center reception area.