We’re very happy to announce the third round of Troopers 2013 talks today (first round here, second here).
So much quality stuff… it seems to get (ever) better every year ;-).
Here we go:
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Michael Ossmann & Dominic Spill: Introducing Daisho – monitoring multiple communication technologies at the physical layer.
Synopsis: Most communications media can be monitored and debugged at various levels of the stack, but we believe that it is most important to examine them at the physical layer. From there, the security of every level can be investigated and tested. The task of monitoring physical layer communications has become increasingly difficult as we try to squeeze more and more bandwidth out of our links. A passive tapping circuit can be used to monitor a 100BASE-TX connections, but no such circuit exists for 1000BASE-T networks.
Our solution to this problem is Project Daisho; an open source hardware and software project to build a device that can monitor high speed communication links and pass all of the data back to a host system for analysis. Daisho will include a modular, high bandwidth design that can be extended to monitor future technologies. The project will also produce the first open source USB 3.0 FPGA core, bringing high speed data transfer to any projects that build on the open platform.
As a proof of concept at this early stage, we will demonstrate monitoring of a low bandwidth RS-232 connection using our first round of hardware and discuss the challenges involved with the high speed targets such as 1000BASE-T and USB 3.0 that we will take on later this year.
Bios: Michael Ossmann is known for his experience with radio communications technology and open source hardware design, having produced both the Ubertooth and HackRF as well as regularly teaching workshops on software defined radio. He has spoken about his work with software defined radio and Bluetooth at Troopers, Black Hat, DEF CON, ToorCon, ShmooCon and more.
Dominic Spill has been building a Bluetooth packet sniffer since 2007; last year he took over as lead developer for the Ubertooth and has recently begun working with Michael on Daisho. He has previously presented his Bluetooth work at DEF CON, ShmooCon, USENIX WOOT, and Kiwicon.
Both speakers have a passion for building open source tools to allow curious people to examine the technologies and protocols that we use to communicate.
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