Shmoo Group
Encyclopedia
The Shmoo Group is an international organization founded by Bruce Potter in the late 1990s as a non-profit security think-tank. The group is composed of people such as Apache Foundation director Ben Laurie
, anonymity guru Len Sassaman
, PGP Corporation
CTO Jon Callas
, and Hollywood film system administrator Adam Shand.
conference, which was founded in 2005. Other projects include:
Ben Laurie
Ben Laurie is a software engineer, protocol designer and cryptographer. He is a founding director of The Apache Software Foundation, a core team member of OpenSSL, a member of the Shmoo Group, a director of the Open Rights Group, Director of Security at The Bunker Secure Hosting, Trustee and...
, anonymity guru Len Sassaman
Len Sassaman
Len Sassaman was an advocate for privacy, maintainer of the Mixmaster anonymous remailer code and remop of the randseed remailer.He was employed as the security architect and senior systems engineer for Anonymizer...
, PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation, co-founded by Jon Callas and Phil Dunkelberger, is based in Menlo Park, California. PGP Corporation was funded by Rob Theis, General Partner, Doll Capital Management and Terry Garnett, General Partner, Venrock Associates. The company is the current owner of the Pretty Good Privacy...
CTO Jon Callas
Jon Callas
Jon Callas is an American computer security expert and Chief Technical Officer of Entrust. Callas has a long history of work in the computer security field, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Additionally, Callas is a contributor to multiple IETF RFCs...
, and Hollywood film system administrator Adam Shand.
Projects
The group runs and sponsors various initiatives, and runs the annual ShmooConShmooCon
ShmooCon is an American hacker convention organized by The Shmoo Group. There are typically about 35 different talks and presentations, on a variety of subjects related to computer security and cyberculture.-History:...
conference, which was founded in 2005. Other projects include:
- Rainbow Tables
- Tinfoil Hat LinuxTinfoil Hat LinuxTinfoil Hat Linux was a compact Linux distribution designed for high security. Version 1.000 was released in February 2002. It appears to be no longer actively maintained , though the files are still available in gzip format. THL requires a 386DX computer or better, with at least 8 MB of RAM. The...
, a linux distribution hosted at the Shmoo website - Osiris (defunct)
- Hackerbot