CPV 11: Spycraft & Ciphers
Venue
Our 11th annual Crypto & Privacy Village was hosted at DEF CON 32.
When: 8-11 August 2024
Where: LVCC West Hall (Level 1, Hall 2, Between Aisle 9-10), 3150 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
Friday: LVCC West Hall Creator Stages 1 & 2, CPV (Village), and CPV Expert Talks/Sessions
Track | Time | Title | Speaker(s) |
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1 | 10-11:00 | Differential privacy beyond algorithms: Challenges for successful deployment | Dr. Rachel Cummings |
CPV | 10-10:03 | CPV: Day 1 Welcome | CPV Organisers |
1 | 11-11:30 | Travel Better: Expedient Digital Defense | Grey Fox |
CPV | 12-13:00 | Gold Bug: Welcome | The Gold Bug Team 2024 |
CPV (Expert) | 13:30-13:45 | Surprise Talk! Differential Privacy? HIPAA? ML/AI? Who knows! | Dr. Rachel Cummings |
CPV | 13-13:15 | CPV: Intro to Ciphers | CPV |
CPV | 14-14:30 | Data Brokers and the Threat to Your Privacy | Yael Grauer |
CPV (Expert) | 15-15:30 | Basic Mobile Phone Privacy | Grey Fox |
2 | 16-17:00 | Data On Demand: The challenges of building a privacy focused AI Device | Matt Domko |
1 | 17:30-18:00 | Fool us Once, fool us twice… Hacking Norwegian banks with paper ID | Per Thorsheim, Cecilie Wian |
Saturday: LVCC West Hall Creator Stage 1, CPV (Village), and CPV Expert Talks/Sessions
Track | Time | Title | Speaker(s) |
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CPV | 10:25-10:30 | CPV: Day 2 Welcome | CPV Organisers |
CPV | 10:30-10:45 | CPV: Intro to Ciphers | CPV |
CPV | 14-15:00 | Gold Bug: Puzzle Panel | The Gold Bug Team 2024 |
CPV | 16-16:15/30 | A Whirlwind Tour of the FBI’s Secret Encrypted Chat App | Joseph Cox |
1 | 17-17:30 | Attacks on GenAI data and using vector encryption to stop them | Patrick Walsh, Bob Wall |
CPV (Expert) | 17:15-18:00 | CPV: Be Anonymous? Protecting Your Personal Information | |
1 | 17:30-18:00 | GUR RIBYHGVBA BS PELCGBTENCUL | Jeff Man |
Sunday: LVCC West Hall Creator Stages 2 & 4
Track | Time | Title | Speaker(s) |
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2 | 10-10:30 | Porn & Privacy | ET |
2 | 10:30-11:30 | Famous and Not-So-Famous Unsolved Codes | Elonka Dunin, Klaus Schmeh |
CPV | 12-12:30 | CPV: Program Committee Closing Remarks | CPV Program Committee 2024 |
4 | 13-13:00 | Wu-Tang is for the Children: How States Laws Intended to Protect Children Raise Other Privacy and Legal Risks | Anthony Hendricks |
Archive
Venue Info: Floor Plan

Volunteering
The Crypto & Privacy Village would not be possible without volunteers. We are wholly volunteer-run, volunteer-led, sponsorship-free. Thank you to all of our volunteers, old and new, for making the Crypto & Privacy Village at DEF CON possible! There are different volunteer roles available to choose from. Each play an important and vital role to make CPV successful.
Do you want to volunteer at Crypto & Privacy Village? We’d love to have you this year! Please sign up to volunteer here: https://signup.com/go/aQOgDdY
Volunteer orientation is on Thursday at 3-3:30pm. Please attend if you can!
All volunteers who sign-up for 3 spots* or more are eligible for a badge. Update: Badge request sign-ups have officially closed for the year. All badge confirmations have been sent. Any remaining badges (e.g. no-shows) will be distributed to volunteers in order of priority (i.e. need-based, number of shifts, etc.)