Almost all deployed transparency systems require finding at least one independent and trustworthy third party to help operate the system. Key Transparency systems, however, are deployed by individual organizations to protect their own users. Finding an independent and trustworthy third party in these use-cases is often an overwhelming hurdle to deployment. This talk discusses why, and how the Key Transparency protocol being standardized at IETF solves this problem.
Speaker
Brendan is a freelance cryptography engineer who focuses on developing and deploying standards that make the whole Internet safer. His experience includes building the first major TLS 1.3 deployment at Cloudflare and operating Certificate Transparency logs that are trusted in Chrome.
