On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:52 PM, <marcus.sachs@verizon.com> wrote:
Yes, wonderful preso! My biggest take-away was the fact that the vast majority of the attendees did not understand the gravity of the demo.
Agreed on both counts: the presentation was great, and largely not understood it seemed.
hehe "new". hehe
Maybe something will change now' though, it was a great and impressive presentation, hijacking the defcon network and tweaking TTL to hide it.
Notably, Alex and Tony both mentioned that the BGP tricks were not new during the presentation, and commented that it would essentially not be surprising to anyone that groks routing at the level that most of the folks on this list does. What was new though according to their presentation (and it was new to me certainly, but I'm still fairly green) was the AS Path prepending to complete the circuit, and as you mentioned, the TTL magicks to hide the hops. I was suitably impressed at that. -- Jason