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Could HP have come up with a Darknet for the great unwashed at last? All will be revealed at Black Hat in Las Vegas.
The Darknet is not, to be fair, anything new. It has always been rather
exciting, and an important technology that has been used to help those
in oppressive regimes to navigate around Internet censorship and state operated
firewalls.
Assuming that is, those oppressed citizens
have the technical know-how and savvy to be able to install and
configure the assorted and complex components required to get one of
these private and secure networks up and running properly of course.
The unpleasant truth is that the number of people who have been able to
actually participate in any Darknet has always been pretty limited by
this particular elephant in the room.
A couple of HP researchers reckon that they have a big enough
technology gun to be able to shoot that elephant down, and are
preparing for some target practise as the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas later this
week.
Billy Hoffman, manager of HP’s Security Lab and his fellow HP
researcher Matt Wood are planning to demonstrate a new kind of Darknet
which has been created within the confines of a web browser,
The so-called 'Veiled Darknet' requires no additional software at all,
meaning pretty much any end user will be able to make use of the secure
and anonymous communication it provides be they joining in from a PC or
mobile device.
The ease of use, we are told, does not come at any cost in terms of
secure channel communication where shared files are encrypted,
fragmented and stored locally on the computers of other members of the
Darknet.
Perhaps the greatest advantage, beyond the ease of use, of the Veiled
Darknet is the zero footprint installation which promises an ability to
not only establish a Darknet quickly, but disperse just as quickly.
David Bass
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