A very broad subject which will consist out of different independent discussions and workshops.

ActiveX

Lutz Donnerhacke of CCC will talk about ActiveX (in)security.

Practical PGP Attacks

Joel McNamara, the author of Private Idaho, a freeware, Windows PGP and anonymous remailer shell, will be at HIP to give a presentation about Practical PGP Attacks.
This presentation discusses practical attacks an opponent may use to compromise PGP. These methods are typically much more efficient and cost effective than CPU-intensive cracking attempts. Vulnerabilities such as swap file access, trojan horse versions of PGP and shells, keyboard monitoring, brute forcing, and key theft viruses are explored. Countermeasures are suggested for enhancing security.

Legal Hacking

Paul Samwel and Willem Scheeres, EDP Auditors at Moret, Ernst & Young will give a presentation about "legal hacking" or penetration testing.

Smartcard security

A working group has been set up to get a discussion going on the security of Chipcards and the development of cryptographic systems in conjunction with Smartcards. In August some of the gathered material will be presented in a workshop.

Van Eck monitoring

This technology picks put up the electromagnetic radiation emanations from electronic equipment such as microchips, monitors, cables and printers. We would like to build a receiver and antenna used to monitor emanations from computer monitors and show this device at HIP in August.