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Gosling: Build Anonymous, Secure, and Metadata- Resistant Peer-to-Peer Applications using Tor Onion Services

UD2.218A | Day 2 | 12:15 - 12:40 | Speakers: morgan (tor)

Gosling: Build Anonymous, Secure, and Metadata- Resistant Peer-to-Peer Applications using Tor Onion Services
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Abstract

Gosling is a Tor onionservice-based protocol and Rust reference-implementation which allows developers to build privacy-preserving p2p applications with the following properties: - persistent authenticated peer identity - end-to-end encrypted - anonymity - metadata resistance - decentralisation - real-time communication

This talk will go over the complexities involved in combining all of these properties (with a focus on metadata resistance) and describe how Gosling solves these problems.

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morgan (tor)

Morgan is the maintainer and lead developer of the Gosling library and the Ricochet-Refresh instant messaging application with Blueprint for Free Speech, a German not for profit which works internationally to promote the right to freedom of expression via its civil-society projects such as https://www.noslapp.de. SHe is also the Applications Team Lead with the Tor Project where she manages the development of Tor Browser, Tor Browser for Android, and Mullvad Browser. Morgan lives in a cozy flat in the Netherlands with her two beloved cats.

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