Black Ops 2006: Pattern Recognition

The "Black Ops" series of talks tend to look for useful functionality in existing systems, and this year's edition is no exception. Topics will include:

• Detecting selective degradation along network paths
• Results from a worldwide SSL scan
• Cryptomnemonics
• A midpoint between dumb fuzzing and smart fuzzing
• Dotplots as a guide for fuzzing
• Visual Bindiff

Dan Kaminsky is a security researcher who's been presenting research into interesting mechanisms within TCP/IP for several years. He spent two years at Cisco Systems, Inc., and two more at Avaya Inc., before starting consulting under his own DoxPara Research brand. He is best known for his work accurately estimating and visualizing the number of hosts infected by Sony Corp.'s DRM rootkit, using a quirk of the Internet's Domain Name System infrastructure.