Session
Nym Technologies
Harry Halpin (Nym Techologies, Switzerland) Private Sector, Western European and Others, Iness Ben Guirat (KU Leuven, Tunisia) Technical Community, African Group Renata Avila (Open Knowledge Foundation, Guatemala), Civil Society, Latin American and Caribbean Group
Harry Halpin (Nym Techologies, Switzerland) Private Sector, Western European and Others, Iness Ben Guirat (KU Leuven, Tunisia) Technical Community, African Group Renata Avila (Open Knowledge Foundation, Guatemala), Civil Society, Latin American and Caribbean Group Andres Arauz (UNAM, Equador), Civil Society, Latin American and Caribbean Group
Renata Avila
Iness Ben Guirat
Harry Halpin (Nym)
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Targets: The network prevents new infrastructure that will help boost privacy innovation and industry.
Lighting Talk
This lightning talk will demonstrate the Nym network, a decentralized mixnet that prevents global passive adversaries -like the NSA - that can watch an entire network from the surveillance of internet communication. We will discuss how privacy-by-design works, why the original internet (TCP/IP, IPSec, and TLS) via the IETF did not tackle privacy in the core protocols, and how overlay networks can add these properties to the network. We will go over differences between mixnets, Tor, and VPN. We will show how the infrastructure can be run by ordinary users and how it can be used in combination with apps like Telegram. We will end with discussing use-cases for governments and NGOs, particularly those in the Global South.
We will also provide the instructions to allow people offline to participate and join the demo.