DEF CON 34
Table of Contents
1. Overview
DEF CON 34 (August 6–9, 2026). Las Vegas Convention Center.
2. Badge
TBD.
3. Villages (Cipher/Encoding Relevant)
Prioritized by relevance to the encode tool and reversible pipeline research:
3.1. Crypto & Privacy Village
Launched 2014. Talks, CTFs, Gold Bug Challenge (named after Poe's story — see examples). Privacy-enhancing tech, facial recognition, crypto backdoor laws.
3.2. Badgelife Village
Badge Museum, SAO trading, badge creator talks and workshops.
History of badge ciphers across years. The badge.life archive.
3.3. Packet Hacking Village / Wall of Sheep
Network forensics, packet analysis, Capture The Packet (Black Badge contest). Packet interception and decoding — the network-layer version of the encode pipeline.
3.4. AI Village
Hands-on LLM security. Drop-in workshops on prompt injection, agent pentesting. HalCTF: write your own pentesting agent. Relevant to agentic encoding/transformation pipelines.
3.5. Embedded Systems Village
Hardware hacking, firmware analysis. Badge RE skills. Non-profit (501c3).
3.6. Ham Radio Village
Amateur radio, RF, Morse code, antenna design. Direct connection to the encode tool's morse codec and DC29 lanyard cipher.
3.7. Quantum Village
5th year. Open quantum hardware. Quantum gates are unitary (reversible) — direct connection to the quantum computing section of the research.
3.8. Red Team Village
Offensive security tactics, CTF. The "try and see" workflow the encode tool supports.
3.9. Social Engineering Community Village
Vishing competition, Battle of the Bots. The human-layer encoding: persuasion as a non-reversible transform.
4. References
- DC34 Call for Content
- Encode tool — decode badge ciphers interactively
- Reversible Pipeline Transforms — the theory