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CUTLASS - Encrypted Communications for Everyone
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Attacking WiFi networks with traffc injection - Why open and WEP 802.11 networks really suck

This presentation aims at showing WiFi trafic injection applications in order to practically demonstrate weaknesses of commonly deployed WiFi environments, aka WEP or open networks such as hotspots, for network itself and also for stations connected to it. A practical point of vue is adopted instead of giving another "WiFi is insecure" theorical brief.

The first part will briefly present 802.11 basics so everyone can understand the whole stuff (management vs. data, how injection works, consequences of injection, etc.) and is ready to understand consequences and thus applications. WiFi adapters, drivers (e.g. hostap) and tools will also be shortly introduced.

The second part will develop practical injection cases, with references to existing tools. The very last topic (WiFi stations attacks) will be developped to show how one can just compromise a random host on a WiFi network without even being associated.

* DoS using management traffic (disassoc, beacons)
* WEP cracking methods
* Captive Portal (commercial hotspots) breakthrough
* WiFi station attacks

The third part will focus on how recent protection schemes, aka WPA and WPA2/802.11i, can prevent or mitigate such kind of attacks and give a conclusion to the presentation.

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Users on the internet are doing more and more of their daily work over peer-to-peer applications. Existing protocols such as SMTP and IRC are being replaced by peer-to-peer file transfer, voice chat, and text messaging systems. Unfortunately, the popular protocols are not secure, and the secure protocols are not popular.

In this talk, we will talk about the security properties of the existing peer-to-peer systems, as well as describing an open-source system in development, CUTLASS. CUTLASS aims to fill the niche for tools powerful and usable enough to be broadly popular, while still providing strong encryption and authentication, all in a BSD-licensed package. It supports encrypted voice, chat, and file transfer.

We will be demoing CUTLASS, comparing it to other systems in existence, and talking about future plans for the software.
Download: pdf CUTLASS - Encrypted Communications for Everyone

Download: pdf CUTLASS - Encrypted Communications for Everyone