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25 Years of SSL - Secure(ish) Sockets Layer

Talkat NDC TechTown 2020 · 2020-08-31..09-03· [security, web-platform]
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Chronicles HTTPS from Netscape 1994 to TLS 1.3, showing concrete adoption numbers and actions: Google moves from ~50% encrypted traffic in 2014 to ~90% by 2019, Firefox page loads go from ~25% to ~80%, crawler.ninja tracks growth across the top 1M since 2015, HTTP Archive concurs. Explains why TLS 1.2 spreads (performance), why Let’s Encrypt and Comodo enable phishing sites, and why browsers (starting with Chrome 68 July 2018) flip green padlocks into warnings.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 1:32What does this mean
  3. 3:10A handbag
  4. 3:59The padlock
  5. 5:21The story of encryption
  6. 8:32SSL Version 1
  7. 10:32SSL Version 2
  8. 12:49SSL Version 3
  9. 15:58SSL Version 31
  10. 27:39Google Data
  11. 35:35Scotts Data
  12. 39:26Phishing Data
  13. 40:47Why Encrypt
  14. 44:06Advertising Standards Agency
  15. 46:32Common misunderstanding
  16. 48:40Chrome 68
  17. 51:03Not Secure
  18. 52:16The Norm
  19. 53:35Privacy
  20. 55:23Nothing to Hide
  21. 56:12Edward Snowden
  22. 57:05Closing Quote
  23. 57:40Outro
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