The Big Crypto team comes from the University of Pittsburgh, specifically from a class called Hacking for Defense (http://www.engineering.pitt.edu/hacking4defense/). The team consists of Wenchen Wang, Ziyue Sun, Brandon Contino, and Nick Albanese.

Wenchen is a PhD student in the computer science department. Ziyue Sun is a masters student in the mechanical engineering program. Brandon and Nick are both undergraduate electrical engineering students.

Big Crypto team is working on discovering/developing and promoting an easily implementable solution for lightweight cryptography. The maker community is an exciting place to start and try to push for security adoption that will hopefully go out into all IoT applications.

Our vision for what our project would produce has ranged from actually coding an open source library that would do encryption, to educating the public on the dangers of IoT hacking in an attempt to push the market to force designers to secure devices. Currently we are thinking that we need to provide a resource for makers that will connect them with the available solutions and resources on how to use them.

Big Crypto is looking to speak to makers/hackers who build devices that have a wireless connection (via wifi, Bluetooth, xbee, etc), or anyone who is interested in these kinds of devices. We are currently interested in the current feelings about the importance of security in the community as well as what roadblocks are currently preventing most projects from being secured.