Abdullah Joseph is a software engineer with a special interest in security and cryptography. In the last 10 years, he worked as a reverser, researcher, lead an R&D security team focusing on developing adfraud countermeasures, and was the principal software engineer at an internet technologies nonprofit, focusing on secure and uncensored communication protocols for dissidents, journalists, and the free internet. 

He is also the holder of GREM, GMOB, GPEN, and GXPN security certifications and a speaker at OWASP, Fablecon, CodeMotion, Hack-in-the-box, R2Con, and Android Security Symposium conferences. 

He currently works as a senior security researcher for Appsflyer to provide a secure mobile analytics service to clients around the globe, while overseeing the security of the company’s libraries integrated in over 25,000 mobile apps, totaling over 400+ billion data points and 25 petabytes of traffic per month.

Nothing To Hide: Privacy-Preserving Cryptographic Authentication In Practice

Governments, email vendors, social media websites, and even your favorite food recipes forum require account registrations where you pass your private password to foreign servers, subjecting your online identity to theft and data breaches. This doesn’t need to be the case. In this talk, the speaker introduce zero-knowledge password protocols; a well-established field of cryptography that puts privacy first, as well as demo a full implementation of such a protocol live.