The Black Hat Briefings in Vegas for 2001 are almost over, and its been one hell of a time. This is the first year that I’ve presented(summary: OpenSSH tak en way too far *laugh*), and despite some small technical difficulties, it went well–thanks to DT for giving me the opportunity! I’m finally becoming somewhat of a coder, as slow and painful an experience as it is (but then, I was trying to do flexible string parsing in C, not something trivial like embedding a SOCKS4 server in the OpenSSH client…). About bloody time doesn’t begin to cover it. (Kids–there’s nobody more ignored than an armchair hacker. Remember that.)

As promised, I’m making the slides available — they should be converted to HTML “soon”; I’ve discovered that PowerPoint is alas yet another roach motel of a file format. *sigh* If you missed the talk, hitch a plane to Vegas because it’s happening again on Sunday–though considering it’s the morning after everyone’s last night in Vegas, I expect about three sober people in the audience.

I’ll be making a reasonably major release at Defcon–the proof of concept is done, but I want to port it to a few different platforms and write up an analysis of the attack. In the meantime, enjoy:

1. Gateway Cryptography: Hacking Impossible Tunnels through Improbable Networks with OpenSSH et al.

Incidentally–anyone who does anything without crypto at Defcon is flat out screwed.

In other news–I’ve been walking around on a pair of wheeled shoes. Damn they’re slick; I just wish I wasn’t still limping from that unfortunate incident with the whiteboard.

Don’t ask.