Presentation suggestion for Chicago

[Declan Ma]

Intrigued!

I will be there.


Di Ma

ZDNS


> 在 2017年2月21日，23:06，Chris Morrow <morrowc at ops-netman.net> 写道：
> 
> 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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