Harry Halpin
CEO and co-founder of Nym Technologies, a startup building a decentralized mixnet to end mass surveillance. Formerly a research Scientist at MIT and Inria de Paris, where I led the standardization of the Web Cryptography API across all browsers. Postdoctoral studies under Bernard Stiegler in the philosophy of technology. Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and also teaches cryptocurrency at the American University of Beirut.
Sessions
The talk will explain mixnet technology in detail, the original cypherpunk networking scheme for anonymous messaging that hides metadata by mixing packets. We'll assume no prior experience and will give a large-scale introduction and overview different mixnet design, from Chaumian mixnets to continuous time layered mixnets like Nym to hop-by-hop mixnets like HOPR.
This workshop will be a hands-on workshop that that will introduce and overview the Nym mixnet's SDK, with a focus on privacy and censorship-resistance. We will go over a number of different integration points, including RPC nodes and wallets (light clients) so developers can easily understand why they should add a mixnet to their software and what it gets them, as well as its limits.