The Next Billion Certificates: Let's Encrypt and Scaling the Web PKI

Presented at The Eleventh HOPE (2016), July 24, 2016, 10 a.m. (60 minutes).

Let's Encrypt is a free and automated certificate authority to encrypt the web, launched in December 2015. Jacob will explain why HTTPS is important to Internet freedom and the role certificate authorities play. He'll give an introduction to the ACME protocol that Let's Encrypt uses to automate validation and issuance, discuss Let's Encrypt's progress by the numbers, and outline some of its future plans.

Presenters:

• Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
  Jacob Hoffman-Andrews is a lead developer on Let's Encrypt, the free and automated certificate authority. He also works on EFF's Encrypt the Web initiative and is a maintainer on the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension. Prior to working at EFF, Jacob was on Twitter's anti-spam and security teams. On the security team, he implemented HTTPS-by-default with forward secrecy, key pinning, HSTS, and CSP. On anti-spam, he deployed new machine-learned models to detect and block spam in real time. Before Twitter, he worked at Google, variously on the maps, transit, and shopping teams.

Links:

• https://xi.hope.net/schedule.html#-the-next-billion-certificates-let-s-encrypt-and-scaling-the-web-pki- (Conference Schedule)
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Eleventh HOPE (2016)/The Eleventh HOPE (2016) - The Next Billion Certificates Lets Encrypt and Scaling the Web PKI.srt (subtitles)
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Eleventh HOPE (2016)/The Eleventh HOPE (2016) - The Next Billion Certificates Lets Encrypt and Scaling the Web PKI.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdAF5az_do

Similar Presentations:

• DEF CON 23 (2015) / Let's Encrypt - Minting Free Certificates to Encrypt the Entire Web
• 32C3 (2015) / Let's Encrypt -- What launching a free CA looks like
• ShmooCon XV (2019) / Encrypting the Web Isn’t Enough: How EFF Plans to Encrypt the Entire Internet