On Saturday last week I had the pleasure of delivering a
workshop on IPv6 networking
at the MRMCD2015 conference in Darmstadt, Germany. It goes
without saying that the atmosphere was quite amicable; as usual at CCC-related
events. What definitely impressed me the most was the diversity of the audience.
There were around thirty attendees representing several age groups and all with
seemingly differing backgrounds.
The engagement of everyone was stunning. I questioned the most engaged attendees
relentlessly and they fired back. I was being constantly bombarded with
questions from enthusiastic geeks and they got, hopefully, what they deserved.
This provided for a great learning environment, a friendly atmosphere and in my
humble opinion really constructive dialogues. Well, one has to be interested and
enthusiastic in order to spend three hours on a rainy Saturday evening
discussing IPv6.
A while a go Dominik and I gave an introductory presentation about SSL at the
BASTA.NET conference, a developer-oriented event held in Darmstadt twice a year.
At that time there were quite some enthusiastic participants but recently we’ve
also gotten some inquiries asking for the relevant materials. Although there’s
no recording of the session, we’ve decided to put the slides here for those
interested who didn’t make it to the talk.
The purpose of this blog post is to elucidate how and why MLD, an IPv6 protocol
we’ve been lately talking quite a bit about, is an unnecessarily complex beast
. This article should also serve to summarize a couple of points we’ve mentioned
during our talks about MLD but which because of time constraints never make it
into the main discussion. We’ve talked about
other aspects of MLD in previous posts.
So, have a look at those if this is a topic which you find interesting. Without
further ado, let’s start for today.
Information security conferences are known to be attended because of several
reasons. For some it’s the technical content, for others the networking
potential and for some others simply meeting old friends. Pinpointing our
motives is clearly a challenging task, but the following wrap-up ought to share
our personal highlights of the week we spent visiting Black Hat USA 2014 and
DEFCON 22 in Las Vegas.
After somewhat 18 hours of flight, some sleep and with the beautiful scenery of
perpetual clear skies above Las Vegas we began what was to be an incredible
week.