Public community Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANETs), such as the “Funkfeuer” or “Freifunk” networks, scale up to several hundreds of routers, connecting users with each other, and with the Internet. As MANETs are typically operated over wireless channels (e.g. WiFi),…
Inquiring mind wondering …
Today, Jean-Charles Griviaud from Cisco France is at Ecole Polytechnique, where he is giving a talk about Cybersecurity at Ecole Polytechnique – and, is bringing an industrial perspective to what we have been treating “academically” only, so far. One of his…
This evening, students at Ecole Polytechnique organize “Point Gamma 2017” – a gigantic party for students and others, with music, entertainment, – and, according to the flyer, something special this year…. I cannot help but wonder if this is related…
In the course INF566 “Internet Protocol Success” at Ecole Polytechnique, and as part as the curriculum in Advanced Communication Networks, I, my colleague Mark Townsley, and again with expert assistance from Jean-Louis Rougier, are teaching “enterprise-grade Internet Routing”. Starting with an understanding of…
There are few things as fun as “breaking stuff”. Of course, not in the “temper-tantrum throwing toys around” way of an over-stimulated 4-years-old with a sugar-high from trick-or-treat Halloween-candy (belated happy Halloween btw., to those on the other side of…
This afternoon, I am thrilled to be having professor Avi Mendelson from Technion Israel Institute of Technology visiting Ecole Polytechnique. I visited Technion in the spring of this year (2016) with a small delegation from Ecole Polytechnique. This was my first…
Leo Gaspard, X14-student at Ecole Polytechnique, presenting his findings from a 2 month part-time security analysis of LoRAWAN: several interesting finding, notably that the gateway-server communication (an otherwise proprietary protocol) exposes various internal data structures, including path names – as…
A neat little man-in-the-middle attack demonstration by Alexis Thual and Victor Quach: it works by redirecting traffic (to their site) and recording passwords before re-redirecting to the original site. So far so good….except…..the recorded passwords were available on a public…
Polytechnique students Armand Boschin, Vincent Billaut and Adrian Valente presenting their MODAL: MAC flooding, to trick a switch into behaving as a hub – all that, to enable various forms of DNS hi-jacking. It is incredibly sympathetic when pretty much the…