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TWO HP INSECURITY experts are preparing to inform the Black Hat USA 2009 security conference up coming week about their plans to develop a browser-based darknet.
Darknets are overt, private personal computer networks used for ultra-secure communications and file sharing.
Billy Hoffman,
Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate, manager of HP's internet protection group,
Office 2007 Professional Plus, and Matt Wood, senior protection researcher at HP, happen to be employing the new era of JavaScript engines in Chrome's V8 and Firefox's TraceMonkey to carry out the encryption required to generate a darknet perform effortlessly.
Apparently they've got created a prototype browser-based darknet known as Veiled as proof of principle.
Information Week said that the pair don't intend to release the software or make the source code available.
The goal of their presentation is to show how capable the internet browser has become as an application platform and to discuss the technical challenges they had to overcome to produce their prototype.
The HP pair say that by using such tools it is a lot easier for people to create darknets. Since most people don't need to be that mysterious, we guess that means criminals,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus, terrorists,
Office 2010 Activation, spooks, investment bankers, governments, marketeers and other evil-doers will be able to use the technology.
Wood's system uses the server as a router. Veiled merges servers together so that clients on different servers can communicate directly.
Veiled shouldn't be seen as a replacement for an anonymity tool like Tor,
Office Pro 2007 Key, said Wood. But it will help those wanting to create communities quickly and take them down quickly, he added. µ