18.11.2024
Internship Talk: Bringing private SCT auditing into practice
Abstract
PhD student Lena Heimberger visited Cloudflare in Lisbon from July to October. Now that she is back, she will talk about Transparency, the Certificate ecosystem, Merkle Tree Certificates, fallback strategies, protocols and why Portugese coffee culture is better than Italian. More concretely, she studied the certificate ecosystem in the context of post-quantum certificates, trying to sketch the design space for fallback mechanisms for so-called slow-issuance certificates. The result is an upper bound for fallback probabilities that can be used to study methods for fallbacks. As a part of this study, Lena and her colleagues found that SCT auditing is on the brink of being practical when using Private Information Retrieval methods.
Parts of the talk have already been presented at transparency.dev in London last month, and will be submitted in form of a paper soon.
The talk is aimed at Master's students, but anybody is welcome. Questions, also about the internship, are explicitly encouraged.
PhD student Lena Heimberger visited Cloudflare in Lisbon from July to October. Now that she is back, she will talk about Transparency, the Certificate ecosystem, Merkle Tree Certificates, fallback strategies, protocols and why Portugese coffee culture is better than Italian. More concretely, she studied the certificate ecosystem in the context of post-quantum certificates, trying to sketch the design space for fallback mechanisms for so-called slow-issuance certificates. The result is an upper bound for fallback probabilities that can be used to study methods for fallbacks. As a part of this study, Lena and her colleagues found that SCT auditing is on the brink of being practical when using Private Information Retrieval methods.
Parts of the talk have already been presented at transparency.dev in London last month, and will be submitted in form of a paper soon.
The talk is aimed at Master's students, but anybody is welcome. Questions, also about the internship, are explicitly encouraged.