CodeCon 2002

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Feb 24, 2002

CodeCon 2002 was a wonderful success. We're all very pleased by the quality of the presentations and the extremely intelligent and insightful audience. We're looking forward to CodeCon 2003 -- stay tuned for more information on that as the time approaches!

In the interest of improving the next conference, if you have any comments, suggestions, or other feedback, please mail us and share your thoughts.

CodeCon 2002 will be February 15-17, noon-5pm at DNA lounge in San Francisco, California. CodeCon is the premier event in 2002 for the P2P, cypherpunk, and network/security application developer community. It is a workshop for developers of real-world applications that support individual liberties.

All presentations will given by one of the active developers, and accompanied by a functional demo.

CodeCon presentations will include:

Peek-A-Booty - a distributed anti-censorship application
Invisible IRC Project - secure, anonymous client/server networks
Idel - lightweight mobile code for p2p cpu sharing
Reptile - a distributed but uniform content exchange mechanism
Mnet - a universal shared filestore
Alpine - a social discovery mechanism which can handle high churn rates, malicious peers, and limited bandwidth
Eikon - an image search engine
CryptoMail - encrypted email for all
libfreenet - a case study in horrors incomprehensible to the mind of man, and other secure protocol design mistakes
BitTorrent - hosting large, popular files cheaply
WikiWikiWan - ad-hoc wireless networking
gateway crypto - achieving connectivity by any means necessary

Topics which won't be found at CodeCon include:

Digital Rights Management and other other technologies which impair individual liberty
Mathematical cryptography lacking practical implementation
Political debate about key escrow
Vendor sales pitches for closed-source, feature-crippled libraries
Enterprise security architectures with no relevance to the public Internet

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