[Novalug] May Meeting info

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Thu May 5 04:45:19 EDT 2011


Project Byzantium is an effort at HacDC (http://hacdc.org/) to develop a
rapidly deployable communication system using mesh networking by which
users can share information in the absence of convenient access to the
Internet.  The project's use cases aim to help solve the Katrina Problem
(a natural disaster knocks out large portions of the infrastructure) as
well as the Egypt Problem (a hostile entity shuts off the
infrastructure). Our design goals involve low cost, improvisability
(ideally, a small group of people should be able to patch together a
sizable Byzantium mesh using stuff they have laying around the house),
and the ability for wi-fi enabled nodes to make use of the mesh without
having to run the mesh routing software (but it would be nice if they
did to help).  A Byzantium mesh will provide services to its users
including wikis, collaborative word processing environments, microblogs,
and realtime chat, as well as Internet access if one of the nodes has an
active link.  The project will eventually produce and maintain a LiveUSB
distribution which can be used to set up mesh nodes in a short period of
time, full documentation, and a toolkit of open source applications.

Project page: http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Byzantium

Questions will be taken after the presentation.

Speaker Bios:
Bryce A. Lynch has worked as a system administrator, security engineer,
and consultant for fifteen years in the public and private sectors. He
is interested in cryptography, privacy and anonymity technologies,
electronics, music of all kinds, security research and penetration
testing. His other hobbies include designing and building synthesizers,
constructing biofeedback devices, chasing high-altitude balloons,
scanning the RF bands, and writing code that other people don't
understand the purpose of. When stuck in traffic he has been known to
sing beltway karaoke and hold animated conversations with himself. He is
the partner of one wife, no children or pets, seven computers, and too
many books. His sense of humor is implemented in LOGO, and he is
actually very shy.

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