A week has passed since the Las Vegas craziness and we’ve had some time to write down our impressions about the Black Hat, Defcon and BSidesLV conferences as well as our own IOAsis event.
It was great for me to meet lots of people—some of who I only see once a year in Las Vegas. I think this is one of the great things about these events: being able to talk for at least a couple of minutes with colleagues and friends you don’t see regularly (the Vegas craziness doesn’t allow long chats most of the time). I also got to meet people personally for the first time after working together and/or communicating just by email, Twitter, or chat. The IOActive team delivered a lot of successful talks that were well received by the public, which makes me proud of our great team and reflects well our constant hard work.
The “Single Packet Authorization” term was first mentioned by MadHat at the BlackHat Briefings in July 2005; however, the first available implementation of SPA was the release of fwknop in May 2005 by Michael Rash. Basically, it grants access to a service upon receiving a particular packet.
We had the opportunity at the IOAsis to attend a fwknop presentation given by Michael Rash. The tool is currently capable of performing several useful things: