Presentation suggestion for Chicago

[Warren Kumari]

...  and a reminder to folk to propose presentations, etc for Chicago..?


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On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:07 AM Chris Morrow <morrowc at ops-netman.net>
wrote:

> 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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