Presentation suggestion for Chicago

[Chris Morrow]

At Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:54:12 +0100,
"Giovane C. M. Moura" <giovane.moura at sidn.nl> wrote:
> 
> Dear chairs,
> 
> We have a work that we'd like to submit for the next IEPG meeting in
> Chicago.
> 
> The paper, currently under review, is entitled " No domain left behind:
> is Let's Encrypt democratizing encryption?"  You can find it at [1].
> 
> Relevance to the IEPG audience: our paper measures in fact
> the efforts employed by the industry and the community to improve the
> adoption of encryption. We show that once costs and complexity are
> removed, we can pretty much have encryption adoption in bulk -- lessons
> that can be generalized for other security-related deployment issues.

sounds like fun!

> 
> 
> More info below:
> 
> Title:  No domain left behind: is Let's Encrypt democratizing encryption?
> Authors: Maarten Aertsen, Maciej Korczyński, Giovane C. M. Moura,
> Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob, Jan van den Berg
> 
> Abstract: "
>     The 2013 National Security Agency revelations of pervasive
> monitoring have lead to an "encryption rush" across the computer and
> Internet industry. To push back against massive surveillance and protect
> users privacy, vendors, hosting and cloud providers have widely deployed
> encryption on their hardware, communication links, and applications. As
> a consequence, the most of web traffic nowadays is encrypted. However,
> there is still a significant part of Internet traffic that is not
> encrypted. It has been argued that both costs and complexity associated
> with obtaining and deploying X.509 certificates are major barriers for
> widespread encryption, since these certificates are required to
> established encrypted connections. To address these issues, the
> Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, and the University
> of Michigan have set up Let's Encrypt (LE), a certificate authority that
> provides both free X.509 certificates and software that automates the
> deployment of these certificates. In this paper, we investigate if LE
> has been successful in democratizing encryption: we analyze certificate
> issuance in the first year of LE and show from various perspectives that
> LE adoption has an upward trend and it is in fact being successful in
> covering the lower-cost end of the hosting market.
> 
> [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03005
> 
> thanks and best,
> 
> /giovane
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