Billy Hoffman has released some research. This time around he and a fellow researcher have found a way to create a darknet using browsers. Reminds me of a project called Peekabooty which, sadly, is no longer supported.
I’m looking forward to the Black Hat presentation this summer as I’m curious how this differs from the plethora of other options out there.
From Dark Reading:
A pair of researchers has discovered a way to use modern browsers to more easily build darknets — those underground, private Internet communities where users can share content and ideas securely and anonymously.
Billy Hoffman, manager for HP Security Labs at HP Software, and Matt Wood, senior security researcher in HP’s Web Security Research Group, will demonstrate a proof-of-concept for Veiled, a new type of darknet, at the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas next month. Darknets, themselves, are nothing new; networks like Tor, FreeNet, and Gnutella are well-established. The HP researchers say Veiled is the same idea, only much simpler: It doesn’t require any software to participate, just an HTML 5-based browser. “We’ve implemented a simple, new darknet in the browser,” Wood says. “There are no supporting [software] programs.”
Except the browsers…
Like I said, I’ll wait until Black Hat.
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Interesting. This reminds me of Freenet which I was actually checking out the other day. It would be nice if this project is a bit more lively than Freenet but I guess we’ll wait and see. Then again, maybe not. If the whole point of darknet p2p is anonymity it may be very quiet 🙂