http://www.synacklabs.net/cutlass Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:14:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just wanted to assure people that despite the recent quiet, the project is not dead. I’m in a mode where I’ve been working on features that I’m not going to release until there’s a certain amount of polish there. Expect to see something within the next couple of months. ... http://www.synacklabs.net/cutlass/?p=20 Today is the day that the patent for blind-signatures, by David Chaum expires. I recently reread Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, and I’m struck at how far off the dreams of cyberspace as a free haven for transactions are from the reality of today. We’ve done pretty ... http://www.synacklabs.net/cutlass/?p=19 It’s been quiet on the blog recently, partially because there’ve been no new features added for a bit. Instead, it seems like every day is porting day! We’ve been working on getting the windows port of Cutlass to work, and it seems like we’re only a step away. Of ... http://www.synacklabs.net/cutlass/?p=18 The Recon organizers have now posted all the presentations from that conference. There were a lot of good talks there, so it’s well worth checking out. Videos will supposedly be coming (for free!) in September. http://www.synacklabs.net/cutlass/?p=17 Well, the Grokster ruling from the supreme court is in, and regardless of what I’d hoped, feared, or otherwise, it is what it is. We all have to live with it now. Thankfully, it doesn’t seem to change my plans for Cutlass in any major ways. Essentially, ... http://www.synacklabs.net/cutlass/?p=16 Cory Altheide from the SANS Internet Storm Center posted a review of several presentations at Recon, including mine. Thanks for the link! http://www.synacklabs.net/cutlass/?p=15 I’m in Michigan for a wedding this weekend, so it’s been a slow zone for coding. I fixed a couple of bugs in the transport layer that were causing channel leaks (where channels would transmit all their data, but never free up), and I also removed some redundant ... http://www.synacklabs.net/cutlass/?p=14 So, we’re going to revise the handshaking protocol. It was under revision already, to support negotiation of crypto primitives, but I realized we had some additional requirements for NAT, and some people at Recon mentioned DoS resiliance as something that should be addressed up front. So, I figure we should ... http://www.synacklabs.net/cutlass/?p=12 A new code rev is in, 545, which fixes some old bugs with info propogation (Only one connection was getting updates to things like file server status, which was really irking since I’ve added the ability to switch that status on the fly), and new bugs with the directory server. I’ve ... http://www.synacklabs.net/cutlass/?p=11 The updated slides for the Recon 2005 presentation are now online. It’ll show up on the Recon site as well, shortly, but you got it here, first! http://www.synacklabs.net/cutlass/?p=10