HTTPS & TLS in 2016: Security practices from the front lines
summary
Covers concrete failures and fixes: exploits like FREAK, BEAST, POODLE and LOGJAM, migration choices (ECDSA vs RSA, 2K vs 4K), and deployment recipes for Apache, Nginx, libcurl and load balancers; demonstrates tools and primitives such as Curve25519 and ChaCha/Poly1305 and surveys BoringSSL LibreSSL LibSodium; reports on a 93 million certificate corpus used in the OpenSSL 1.1 audit, shows millions of CT log entries under Certificate Transparency, and notes HSTS preload list adoption in the tens of thousands.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 0:20Topics
- 2:17Confidentiality
- 3:30Authenticity
- 6:18Integrity
- 14:56Mozilla Security Blog
- 18:40With HSTS
- 31:19HTTP/2
- 35:45Real-world Apache/Nginx TLS
- 40:23CBC is a problem
- 43:38OpenSSL 1.1 Audit








