[00:00.560 --> 00:06.800]  Hi, I'm Whitney Merrill with the Crypto and Privacy Village. Here we have folks from all over
[00:06.800 --> 00:12.660]  working on puzzles, talking about cryptography, talking about privacy, and really, you know,
[00:12.660 --> 00:18.460]  sharing knowledge, both introductory topics on privacy, as well as like deep crypto topics like
[00:18.460 --> 00:23.420]  quantum resistant cryptography. I think we try to create a puzzle for all different types of people
[00:23.420 --> 00:28.400]  with different types of knowledge. And so I see kids working on our puzzles, I see adults working
[00:28.400 --> 00:32.720]  on our puzzles. The hope is that you have to work with other people who have different types
[00:32.720 --> 00:38.000]  of knowledge in order to solve it. So there's not like a specific persona who is the one that we're
[00:38.000 --> 00:44.460]  trying to target to try to solve the puzzle. The Crypto and Privacy Village is a 501c3. So we take
[00:44.460 --> 00:51.360]  donations at DEF CON, and then give like a thank you gift with that donation. We've been running
[00:51.360 --> 00:55.980]  this village now for our ninth year. And this helps us do just kind of the basic infrastructure,
[00:55.980 --> 01:02.700]  our storage unit, our annual operating costs, etc. But we are 100% volunteer run. But all of
[01:02.700 --> 01:07.280]  the money that's donated to us goes to continuing to operate this village year after year. We have
[01:07.460 --> 01:12.240]  a puzzle going on right now called the Gold Bug. We've been running it for many years. And so folks
[01:12.240 --> 01:20.100]  are working on that puzzle. I'm Kevin Cryptoc on Discord and Twitter. I'm here with the Gold Bug
[01:20.640 --> 01:28.080]  Challenge. The Gold Bug Challenge is a crypto puzzle. This year we have a series of 11 puzzles.
[01:28.320 --> 01:35.600]  Our theme is back to school. So each of the puzzles is based off of a different school subject.
[01:35.680 --> 01:41.960]  If you go to our website and goldbug.cryptovillage.org, you can download all the puzzles. We
[01:41.960 --> 01:47.780]  also have a BBS system up there where you can you can submit your answers. I encourage you to go
[01:47.780 --> 01:54.680]  on our Discord and find a team to work on some of the problems. Your first challenge is going to be
[01:54.680 --> 02:02.300]  figuring out what you're supposed to do. It's largely a bunch of classic crypto style puzzles,
[02:02.300 --> 02:08.980]  so not a lot of deep RSA or elliptic curve crypto or anything like that, but definitely not
[02:08.980 --> 02:14.200]  something that is going to be obvious. The teams that have won in the past have spent their entire
[02:14.200 --> 02:22.320]  con working on the contest. It takes some resiliency and some ingenuity and creativity to
[02:22.320 --> 02:28.720]  get to the end. I will say that as the contest goes on, we will start dropping hints to help teams
[02:29.360 --> 02:35.620]  make progress. Everyone enjoys a contest that, you know, enables you to have those eureka moments.
[02:35.620 --> 02:40.080]  No one enjoys a contest that just keeps you frustrated. So it's not our intent to make you
[02:40.780 --> 02:45.920]  hate the puzzle. We want you to have fun. So we'll help you along. Please ask questions. Come
[02:45.920 --> 02:51.320]  visit us in the Crypto Privacy Village. We have a table set up and we're eager to help you make
[02:51.320 --> 02:56.620]  progress. You know, even if you know nothing about cryptography or very little about privacy,
[02:56.620 --> 03:02.040]  you know, come on down, come check out our content. We have all of our previous talks that
[03:02.040 --> 03:06.280]  we've had over the years available on YouTube, either through Defcon or through our YouTube
[03:06.940 --> 03:10.240]  channel, which if you look up Crypto Village, you'll find it.
[03:10.240 --> 03:14.680]  And we really want to be a place where anyone can feel welcome. And so come on down.