 Good afternoon. Hello. Wow. Everybody's got their own conversation going on. Cool. I guess you're not really wanting to pay attention to what the badge means or any of the good, wonderful puzzles and other fun hijinks that Vost has put into it, but if you do, here's Vost. How's everybody doing today? Thanks, I love you too. I would ask a little patience. For those of you who may have heard rumors in the wind, we have hiccups regarding the badges every year, and this particular hiccup has made me go the past three days with roughly two to three hours of sleep total, so bear with me. I also am going to do a kind of new thing during this 101 talk. It's going to be kind of an experiment, and it's either going to go totally off the rails or it's going to be fine, but that will be based on you guys and me, so we're going to try and go through this together. I do this 101 talk every year. For those of you who don't know, because it's 101, this is not, I'm going to drop ODAM, I'm not going to talk about elite stuff, and I'm not going to come and act like I'm this snooty jackass who knows more than you do, because like most of you are way smarter than I am. I'm just a weirdo with a soldering iron, and like math a lot. But how many of you, this is your first DEF CON, but show of hands? Holy crap. Yeah, welcome. Welcome. So I really hate giving talks like this because I really prefer having discussions, and on that note there is a room on the conference floor that's the 1057 room, and I request that couches are put in there every year, because I encourage people to come in and just sit down and hang out and talk with people. Because if people at this CON, whether they are the person who invented a programming language or wrote some major app, if they're so pretentious that they're not approachable, I don't want them here. So, and if you try and approach someone, and you try and talk to them, and they're too high and mighty to talk to you, you can tell them to fuck off, because I just don't want them here. Of you guys that are here for the first time, how many of you are from out of the United States? Wow. Thank you. Thank you for traveling so far. Come here. Okay. A couple things we're going to do here. So for those of you who don't know, my name is Lost. They call me 1057 Lost Boy. A couple other things. All the crazy crypto, puzzle-y stuff that you see, stuff on the lanyards, stuff in the program, that's all me. So that's basically a representation of all of my free time from the last year. And I'm often asked, you know, how do I structure these things? How does that come up with? So I believe I do have ADDOCD, where I'm constantly changing what I'm completely obsessed about. And I have these little quirky things I do every year. Like one thing that I would recommend you guys do is I pick two publications of any kind that are completely out of my wheelhouse every year, and I read them during that year. And over time, the knowledge base that I have tends to grow. And the reason I do that is I have a couple of pet peeves. And in full disclosure, I use the 101 Talk to try and dispel or stop some of the pet peeves that I have in the community. And I try and do that by raising us all together. So here's a couple of pet peeves that I have. For those of you who've heard this before, I apologize. But there's a lot of new people here. I mean, who here has been to a talk of mine before? So not very many, okay? Sorry about how health or skeleton is. Like I said, I'm running on very little sleep right now. In fact, I promise the opening ceremonies tomorrow will be much more structured. We're supposed to be having fun in here. This is 101. And originally, it wasn't even an official track part of DEF CON. It was just us hanging out in the highways and some other people put with this track together. But anyway, one of my pet peeves is this idea that as hackers, you have to be creative. And in order to be creative, you have to think outside the box. And how many have heard the term think outside the box? Raise your hand. How many of you know what the origin of that term is? Where does that come from? Besides the obvious imposed, you have a set of mental heuristics that you're imposing upon this problem. And you carry those with you. And if some high and mighty guy came down from off the mountain top and said, thou shalt not impose this particular heuristic, then all of a sudden, magically, you're going to be creative and go, aha, Eureka, and you're going to solve the next major problem. So there have been studies that have shown that that's total bullshit. The original origin of that term is from the nine dot problem, which is a puzzle where you draw nine dots in a box, three, three, and three. And they say, connect all the dots without lifting the pen. How many lines can you do it in? And of course, or, and sometimes you'll have the constraint, you can't cross the lines as long as you can. This depends on the variant. And of course, invariably, people have imposed this mental box because it's in a square. And so it's really, really difficult. And then some jackass comes up and he's all clever and he's like, oh, I go outside what that frame was, yadda da yadda da. Well, it's been studied and it's been shown that even if you take a group of people and you tell them from the start, you have to draw outside of this imposed square that the same percentages of people solve the problem or can't solve the problem. And that the way you get people to have those epiphanal, aha, creative moments is through deep study in a particular subject area. Now, as we go further and further with technology, Google search engine, instant gratification, phone in your pocket, I don't have to go through any of the mental labor to get any of the answers of questions that I have anymore. We do certain things faster but we've lost a sense of wisdom in our knowledge. And by doing so we're starting to short change ourselves. And we're going to start to lose the epiphanal genius moments that come from that deep study of a subject area. So when I do my cryptographic puzzle challenges, I structure them to do three things. I want you guys to talk to each other. I intentionally put things on the lanyards every year so that you have to find other people and you have to interact with them. Not only that, but there's stuff even on the back here. You have to take it off. You have to linger in front of the other person. It forces at least a time for you to interact with one of those other people. And for a crowd that is predominantly introverts, you know, I'm trying to force you to talk to each other. You know, the whole joke about you can tell who the extrovert at like the DEF CON conferences, he's a guy looking at someone else's shoes. But anyway, so that's my soapbox for that. During the one-on-one talks, I have a tradition also of saying I'm not going to explain, obviously in a 40-minute talk or 50 minutes, I don't even know how long I'm supposed to be up here. But in a talk, I'm not going to be able to teach you or, thank you, or give you deep knowledge in a subject. What I'm hoping to give you are hooks. I'm hoping to give you hooks that give you the right points to start to go down. And by the way, I mean dope moat. I do not mean to show disrespect to anybody. I know a lot of you have deep knowledge in a lot of these subject areas, but I kind of shotgun it to try and give people a foundational knowledge of these are the things that I think if you kind of generally know about, you can have a well-informed conversation with someone at a place like DEF CON. Cool? Understand where I'm coming from? Yes, no? You awake? Yeah. I'm tired too. Well, what do you think of the badge this year, by the way? So because this is one-on-one, and don't tell DT, I'm going to tell you this. I don't know if he'll say it in all these ceremonies. I don't know if it's a secret or not. I'm going to tell you guys because you're at one-on-one, which means you're at a hard core. There were, let's just say, I can't tell you the quantity, but there were thousands of badges that were ordered. How many of you have ever done my production of electronics of any kind? Okay. How many of you understand how long it takes to not only do pick and place, but how long it takes to program firmware onto something? Every single one of the badges that you have around your neck right now were programmed within the space of the last three days. And that's why I say none of this would happen without the community because that wasn't me, that wasn't lost jackass with a programmer. That was hundreds and hundreds of volunteers who weren't paid, who are people that come to the con that are here early, that we run up and down the halls going, we have an emergency, guess what, badges showed up and they weren't programmed before they got to us. And so we set up a chop shop and went to town. And there are people, there are people in this room right now who have been awake literally for four days. Some of them are in the front row right here. Okay. Pet peeve number two. I get really frustrated with people, first of all, if you don't understand or know something, admit it. I don't know lots of stuff. When I talk to people at DEF CON, there's really, really smart people around here, you guys. And when I have conversations with you after I give conversations like this, people come up and they want to talk about stuff and they'll say something like, oh, I don't know what that is. Tell me. Explain that to me. My grandfather used to talk about Colombo. The younger people in the audience are like, who the hell is that? Google him. So Colombo is a fictional character who was like the ultimate social engineer. He used to get everyone he met to teach him something, even if he knew it already because it disarmed them. So social engineering tip 101 right there. But I try and not have, you know, when I first came to DEF CON, I was scared crap. I was like, these guys are way smart. They're going to say stuff I don't understand. And they're going to think I'm an idiot. They're going to kick me out. I didn't know what was going to go on. And if you can just be confident enough to talk with people and be like, hey, I don't know what that is. And then flip side, don't be an arrogant ass, but if you know something, share it with other people because that's the only way this community is going to get better. For example, how many of you are aware with the discussions that are going on with cryptography and backdooring? Yes, no, the politics involved with what's going on. That's going to fundamentally change communication. And with people like us, the folks at the DEF CON conference, we need to talk about stuff like that because otherwise stuff's going to go and the genie won't be able to be put back in the bottle after certain events. So I'm not going to push my politics on you, but let's just say we need to share the knowledge and information so that we can all elevate and it's not select. Okay. I get really tired when I talk to people and they make the statement, I know that a computer uses binary. I know that a computer speaks binary. Oh, that just is like, it's like a cheese grater on my thigh. I don't know how to describe it. Sorry. So, and I often will ask people, do you know what that really means and do you understand that? Now, I know there's a lot of people in this audience that are like, all I do is code. I don't give a shit how the processor works. I hate the attitude. How can you think like that? Remember the discussion we just had about creative epiphanal moments? A lot of times those epiphanal moments become from tangential information that may be related to the subject but not directly involved because if it was directly involved, some jackass would already thought of it. How many of you know about the original Bell Labs or heard of it? And if you haven't, especially young folks, go look it up because it's like my dream mecca, like if I go anywhere in a time machine, I would go back in time to the original Bell Labs. The reason the original Bell Labs, by the way, you have C because the original Bell Labs. You have a lot of things that you use in your daily life because of the original Bell Labs. What it was is a collection of experts in different areas but they weren't stove piped. It wasn't like, here's the math department, here's the physics department, here are the electronics guys. They were like, the chemist was next door to the computer guy who was next door to the mathematician, next door to the linguist and they all had access to each other and that's what caused the synthesis of all of this great creativity and we started losing that because everybody wants to keep everything secret, they don't want to share and so we lose those epiphany interconnections. So back to the, I know how a processor works. If you come to me and say, Ryan, you wasted my time at DEF CON because I don't care how a processor works, I just want to code. I would say to you, you do not have the mindset of a hacker and I don't want to talk to you. So, I mean, like go back to that comment I said about subscribing to magazines. I subscribe to like a sewing magazine for a year, you know, just, and I actually learned really cool stuff. So, here's one of the experiments we're going to do today and you guys are all coming along with me on this ride because this one is going to be fun. So can I have a couple of you or however you want, I know you all have cell phones in your pockets that have timers on them. Like a stopwatch. Because I'm not going to lie, I did not practice this part because I was like let's, balls to the wall, let's go, let's see if we can do this. Pause your phone. So in a second, we're going to synchronize and we're going to start and I'm going to try in ten minutes to talk through going from the three basic fundamental logic gates to a functioning processor. In ten minutes. How many of you have had digital logic classes and things like that? How many of you could sit down and actually describe that process to somebody? How many of you kind of do that? Okay. How many of you are students right now? Everybody should raise their hand by the way, it's a trick question. Okay. So, are you ready? Because I need to drink some water and we're going to go. And the reason I'm only doing it in ten minutes in that way is if you guys, if this is a total failure we only wasted ten minutes and you can kind of you can kind of forgive me for that. So, what this is not, this is not me teaching you all this information. This is me running through the forest wildly like my hair is on fire screaming out the things that you should Google or look up that you would then be able to have the knowledge of what these things are. And if one or two things sounds interesting to you, hook on to that and go down that path. So, again, 101 talks, nobody's going to be able to give you a deep dive in a 40 minute talk. Are you ready? Okay. So at like three minutes or somebody, somebody be like, three. Don't do like, I guess you do it every minute like one, two, because I kind of got a feel for how we have to do this. And I have to talk really fast. So, here we go. How to build a processor in ten minutes. No pressure lost. No pressure is total failure. Alright. Ready, set, start your things. Okay. So, we got this guy. His name is George Boule. He's cool. He comes up with this type of logic where he talks about these three fundamental logic gates and or and not. How many of you heard of that? Raise your hand. Yes. We all heard of it. Okay. So, if I take a piece of wire, okay, and I cut it here and here, I have just created a logic gate. It's called and. Why? Because if I connect the wire here but not here, the electricity doesn't flow. If I connect it here and not here, electricity doesn't flow. If I have two cuts and I put them both down this and this, electricity flows through it. So, I can make an AND gate with a wire. So, we have the first fundamental logic gate. Or, I can take the same wire and I can run it in parallel. And I can cut one or cut the other and if I connect one of them, electricity is still going to flow. So, if the top one or the bottom one go, we'll have electricity. Or, not. Not. Okay, can't laugh. You're going to take my time. Not is going to basically invert the signal. We won't talk about how we do that. Let's just say that you can do it in electronics and if you're interested in that, think about that. How does that happen? Google it. The first fundamental piece I'm going to build. So, we have AND or and we have not. And I claim that if you connect them in this particular configuration, I will have this thing that I'm going to call an adder. But this is a half adder because there is not a thing which people call a carry-in. This takes two bits of information. One and two. And if they are both one out the ass end comes a zero and a one which is a carry. If that doesn't make sense to you, Google it. Look up half adder. It's on Wikipedia. The important point to take away is two bits of information in. One bit of information out and a carry bit out. So, two in two out. Boom. So, we got a count. How do I make it countered? It's your question. Ha, I'm burning the time just to make you nervous. So, we're going to take we're going to take that half adder and I'm going to shove it inside a box. And this is called abstraction. We do this a lot. We do it in everything we do. Everyone does OOP programming and all these other things. I need to take circuit, shove it into a box and throw complexity. So, everybody's comfortable with the fact that box represents the two things coming in, one thing coming out with the carry. Yes, go. Incrementally better. I'm going to stack these things. I'm going to take one, I'm going to put it on top of the other. Now I claim I can have two bits of information coming in and two bits of information coming out with a carry. Everybody cool? If you don't understand that, look up half adder and stacking. So, that brings us to an important point. I said two bits in, two bits out. So, we have to use this thing we call hex to represent the numbers. If you're not familiar with why we use hex, I would challenge you to take a bunch of switches from Home Depot, home with you tonight, and take the first switch and sit and look at it and say, how many things can I represent with a single switch? On and off. Two. Binary. That's why a computer uses binary. But, I just said we use hex. Not binary. Why is that? Because on standard systems when we first started, it didn't make sense. You can't do a whole lot with a single bit. So, we added a bunch of bits to the basic standard of bits. So, if I take one switch, I get two things. If I take two switches, I get how many things? Four. If I take three switches, I get how many? And if I take four switches? Sixteen. Sixteen. So, we need at least four to represent decimal, which is our natural tenancy to count because we've got ten of these things. Right? So, we have to go up to four bits. But, if we only go to ten that we use four bits, we wasted some because you just told me we could go up to sixteen. We don't want to waste those. We want to be efficient. So, we use a different representation or number base also called a radix. Look it up. And that number base is base sixteen also called hex. By the way, on a side note, there is a number number base or radix called heximal, which is base six, which is what I believe a pirate would count in because he has five fingers and a hook. So, a bit negative. Okay. You just told me the computer only has one to zero inside. How do I deal with negative numbers? Shit. I don't know how to have a minus sign. Oh, shit. Let's go for four minutes. Let's go. So, I need to have a clever, tricky way of reassigning what numbers mean in binary so that I can have negative. There's this cool thing called one's compliment. Well, that kind of sucked because things didn't line up right. Look up one's compliment. Then, look up two's compliment because we said I can take one's compliment and I can fix it so that we can do this cool thing by having negative numbers that cancel each other out when we add them together. And that's where two's compliment comes from. And I claim that this will give you two's compliment representation of a number. Look it up. There's these things called sob and puss. Everybody hates in class so we're going to skip it. Get off your half fatter. I claimed it's a half fatter because we didn't have a carry in so we want to fix that. I would claim that the logic of the carry is A and B and it together. If A and B are both one, then I'm going to get a carry. Full latter is what I get from that. We're going to shove that into a box because we're going to abstract and go further in. Fully stacked. Now I'm going to take my full adders. I'm going to stack them together. This is a representation of a two bit. I would leave it as an exercise to the reader to extend it to four bits so we can get our four bit microprocessor. Guess what? It looks exactly the same. Just keep stacking. So full. If you have four full adders in a box and put them together you get what is known as a four bit adder. You have a carry in. You have a four bit number on the bottom and out the other end comes the answer plus a carry. Let's go. What I steer you wrong? Okay. We can now represent numbers kind of inside. But I got to steer stuff around inside the processor. So how am I going to do that? I have to have a way of steering stuff around. We have these things we call MUX. Many come in. One comes out. I have a way to choose it. So this is kind of like a traffic cop inside. I also have to have the opposite. I have to have one come in and I can drive them to other places. With these two things I want it to go inside the processor. Cool? If you don't understand it, google it. Stack the deck. If I take two MUX's and put them together I am building six minutes. Okay, we are going to go. Stack the decks. Two MUX's put together. Out the other end I control where data goes. You all get the point. We're controlling a flow of information inside the processor. By the way, why does this matter? Because we're eventually going to get to registers and those matter when you start doing code and you start programming in assembly. What you're going to do is get the logic. So logic. Inside the processor. In order to not just be a calculator, we have to have logic. We have to be able to do logical functions on the data we put in it or we have to be able to do arithmetic. We have this thing we call an ALU. That's from the TV show V. ALU looks like a V if you look at it. Those of you who get the joke, if not, google it. You take all of this stuff. You shove it in. The ones that complement the twos complement. You put it in and we are going to create this thing called an egg not circuit. An egg not circuit says I have data coming in and coming out. With those two control lines down there, I can either choose to negate it or get the nod of it. So I have the ability to do a function. And or with no pass through. Information comes in. Comes out the ass hand with the control here. This is all abstraction that we just built up to. I can take data in. As it comes out, I can choose to do an add or or it. So I have math and logic in that place. All I did was stick a mux on the end, which we talked about before. I wanted the data to either be processed on or not processed on. That's what the mux is for. That's what the pass line is for. Let's go. So I stick all that in the box. I get the and or chip. ALU. There it is. That is basically in essence what you have inside your processor at home. Now, there's been a delay. There's a cool thing called propagation delay which we now don't have time to talk about because we're in a hurry. So it's like crap and come out the ass hand. Now what? We have the ALU. I need to be able to produce input and store it. Then I'll have my fully functioning computer. So I have to have these things called decoders. Guess what? That's exactly the same thing as the mux. Why didn't you just call it that in the first place? So I can decode my decoders and decode the decoders of the decoders in which case I can grow the address space and I can go from 4 bits to 8 bits, 16 bits, etc. Those flip flops are really cool things that are latches inside that hold information so I can now have not just a state machine but I can hold stuff over time. Pick your logic, combinational or sequential. We're going to talk about sequential because that's what computers are because we have to have memory so we're not just based on the here now or the state. So then we build these things called registers which are a flip flop with the shit coming in so we have the thing that can hold information. Those registers are what we're going to set back. General structure. We're going to get to this really quickly. How much time? Brains. This is a brainless microprocessor. You've got the ALU, you've got your memory which we just assigned. Control coming in. You notice the control has nothing there. Shit. This is a brainless microprocessor so we need a brain one. So how do I do that? I take that. I've got buffers on the side. That's the data or the program. I've got a thing called a decoder which takes my instructions but I don't know how to control it. We need to go from the one on the top where the control lines are blank to the one on the bottom and we'll have everything done. PC address generation. PC it's called our program counter. We have to be able to step through the steps in our program. We saw we can do an incrementer from an adder so we got that piece. We got the MUX. We have a thing called ROM which basically defines all the control signals for what I want this thing to actually do. I put them all together and that's your full processor. Ten minutes of your life you won't get back. How many of you guys have taken digital logic? Won't you go up to your processor or your professor? I want you to manage your money back. Say I got this in ten minutes. Where's the clip notes? So not a joke. A little bit of feedback here because I prefer to talk to you guys. I hope I gave you some hooks of maybe some things to look up about basically how a computer works. Because a lot of people don't understand that. And everything is abstraction. We went from pounding rocks and starting fires to a PlayStation. How does that happen? Do you think your average person can tell me how the inside of a PlayStation works? No. And that's the whole point of abstraction is that I'm going to build up the pieces. But I would argue as hackers having these fundamental basic knowledge points are what is going to cause epiphanal stuff. I will argue with anyone right now. Everyone will say there's no longer a need to program in assembly. I'll have the argument with you. Or I'll have an edify discussion with you where you'll teach me stuff that I don't know and I'll change my mind. Because that's the other thing that people in this community need to be willing to do. You need to be able to change your mind if somebody explains something to you that makes more sense. And I think there's too many people that get fixated on their ideas. Excuse me, I'm taking one more drink of water because I really took it out. I want everybody in this audience to find one person next to them but it's not somebody they know and introduce yourself in the next 30 seconds. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Alright, let's focus, focus, focus. Focus, okay, okay, okay. Alright, thank you. Okay, what just happened just then is fucking awesome because that's what DEF CON is for me. It's the people and the interaction. Those of you who came are thinking I'm going to sit with my laptop unless you're doing CTF or you're doing your team with your head down on your laptop and you're going to talk to me. You're going to talk to other people. So it's all about the people for me. By the way, I'm just morbid curiosity. How did the teleprompter people do with that monstrosity? Awesome, awesome. So how did they deal with foreign language? Can we see? Yes? I'm not a first-time speaker. I'm just... I don't drink. Thank you. I will, I will. Thank you very much. So that's a perfect example. Yes, we have fun here at DEF CON. I encourage you to challenge the speakers. If somebody is saying something here that you think is bullshit, go up and talk to them. Okay, challenge people. That's what we're here for. I want people to challenge me. I want you to come on me like, dude, I thought that was crap or whatever. That's how I get better. Yeah. So, I will prepare you for one-on-one, if you go, not one-on-one, the opening ceremonies tomorrow. So like I said, usually Thursday was our fun day where we were just kind of joking around. And it's kind of evolved into another official day of DEF CON. DEF CON didn't used to be Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It used to be Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So this is a... This isn't technically DEF CON because we haven't officially opened the conference yet, but it's just crap. Yes, it is. One-on-one is official. It is now, but it wasn't. Now that you're here, amazing. So after this talk, by the way, there will be a one-on-one panel where we're going to interact with you guys more and talk with you more. And then tomorrow, opening ceremonies, I will talk more specifically about the badge and some of the production and some of the problems we had and some of the craziness in the program. To the folks that make the effort of coming to the one-on-one stuff and talk just slightly about some of the challenge stuff that may give you a little bit of a leg up if you're competing with other people. How many people in this room are actually working on some aspect of the puzzle right now? Or have? Or thought about it? Okay. I hope it's kind of fun. It's a little bit painful at times. So let's talk a little bit about the math that you see in the program. Look at the program on the second page where my ugly mug is at. There's some equations there. Everybody see those? Everybody see that? The math that's there? How many of you looked at it and you were like, hell no, I didn't come to DEF CON to freakin' do math? Hell no! How many of you are familiar with the website called Wolfram Alpha? How many of you tried to put that equation into Wolfram Alpha? Now, second thing that was designed to stump you guys, and see what I'm doing is I'm talking about an aspect of the challenge that hopefully will give you a hook or piece of information you might not have already known. If you did, you're really freakin' smart. Come talk to me because I want to know you. There is a way of representing equations basically in a line of text because you're like, how the hell do I put an integral somewhere? There is a thing you can look up called reverse Polish notation, like racist, but it's not. It's really called RPN for short, reverse Polish notation. It's the way those of us who are old, like me, used to put data into a calculator. Holy crap, I just realized... I just realized... No, but I just realized you were like a foot taller than last year. Stand up for a second. Those of you who don't know this young man right here, this is one of the smartest kids I've ever met. He came to DEF CON two years ago was your first one? He was like this tall, his dad brings him, and he brings his dad, I think. And this is why I love DEF CON, this kind of stuff. He was correcting speakers. He was correcting Joe Grand and me and stuff like that. Introduce yourself to this kid, because he's gonna go places. Those of you who have these track programs for hiring people when they're young, this is a kid you guys need to meet. He's a new Skyler, by the way. Say hi. I did a puzzle badge for a conference called the Gathering for Gardener. How many of you know who Martin Gardener is? If you don't know who Martin Gardener is, he is the father of what we call recreational mathematics. He's also the champ... He used to write for Scientific American doing puzzle stuff. And most of you who've done puzzle-y type stuff like in the newspaper or in magazines, he probably influenced that somehow. He's a pioneer, I've got much respect for him. At that conference, basically I found we had two camps of people. We had mathematicians and we had professional magicians, which is a really interesting mix. And I met this guy, he comes up to me and was introducing himself, and apparently how many of you know what XKCD is? Yeah. So XKCD had written a comic strip about the tool that this guy wrote. And he came up to me and he had heard I made this thing, and it got a lot of press because XKCD featured it, and I was in like his website and he goes, nobody uses it. And I said, you know what? I'm going to use it. I'm going to use it at DEF CON. I'm going to give you credit for it, and I'm going to make sure people... So there is a tool and I have a challenge for people at this conference. Find the XKCD comic, the tool in the name of the author before the end of DEF CON and come to the 1057 room and tell that information to me, and I will have something for you. So that is me giving kind of like a mini challenge to the folks that don't want to get hardcore into the competition. It shouldn't take you very much time with Google to find. But in his algorithm he is able to put in a number and generate functions and equations that produce that number. Now you're sitting yourself, oh this is passe, this is easy, I have lots of processing power now, I will just do some research. Bullshit. For any of you who understand how complexity grows that is not what this guy is doing and this algorithm is brilliant and I bring it up for a reason. Because I'm convinced that someone out here that's in hearing what I'm saying right now is going to look at that and get inspired in a way to use that algorithm because I have an intuitive feel that that particular algorithm is applicable to some other aspects of what we do as hackers that I haven't quite put my thumb on yet and if one of you finds it just give me a nod or something I don't care. But I really believe somebody out there is working on a problem or working on an exploit or working on something in security that this particular algorithm would be useful for. I don't know what it is but I'm throwing that challenge out there and you remember I said this and it's being recorded so when some guy wins a Nobel Prize or does something amazing I'll be like I helped make that happen and that's what this is really all about. Okay. I'm about dead on my feet. This is what I have for you guys for 101. I want to know if you guys have any questions for me because I prefer to talk. You guys are new to DEFCON. Ask me anything you want. Like hey I'm new to DEFCON. Yeah. What type of IC he's asking what type of chip is on badge? Who knows? What is it? It's an Intel Quark D2000. What does that mean? It means it's X86 compatible. Yeah. Any other questions before I fall over and we set up for the panel? No? Really? No question. I'm giving you carte blanche. Why do you wear those shoes? Why are you wearing rods early on? You're sure. Yeah. Yell it. You mean like this? Oh the lanyards? So I have a question for you. Why would I make different lanyards and then just give it all out in a picture? Ah, meat space DDoS. This is meat space. After the fact, so generally people that compete in my competition tend to write up descriptions of what they had to do to solve the problems and I guarantee somebody will have done that. So this is confession. Sorry guys. I usually count on them doing that so I don't have to. I really want to thank you guys for coming out. I hope you, yeah, yeah, go. Okay, so I'll save it for the panel. All right. I'll save it for the panel. Thank you guys for coming. Oh, and these are awesome gunner glasses that I love. Thank you guys for coming.