The Importance of Strong Technical Communities and Partnerships in Africa
The recent outage in West Africa caused by submarine cable damage could have been a lot worse. A strong community ensured it wasn’t.
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Encryption Backdoors Come In All Guises – Reacting to Apple’s Customer Letter
Have you ever lost your smartphone or had it stolen? Have you ever worried that your passcode may not be strong enough? Didn’t you have a sigh of relief when ...
Internet Society Signs “Secure the Internet” Online Petition
The Internet Society has just signed the online petition at https://www.securetheinternet.org. In late 2014, the Internet Society Board of Trustees strongly supported the Internet Architecture Board's (IAB) statement that encryption ...
Let’s Encrypt Enters Public Beta to Increase Encryption on the Internet
The Internet Society believes that encryption should be the norm for all Internet traffic. There are several efforts underway to enhance trust in the confidentiality of communication, including Let’s Encrypt, ...
Encryption and law enforcement: aiming for trust
What would a world of pervasive encryption look like? How would it change the ways in which we use the Internet? How do we get to that world? And how ...
Freedom on the Internet: Where does your country stand?
Out of the 3 billion users on the Internet, how many can trust that their online communications will not be monitored or censored? How many feel safe that they can ...
Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Problems & Recommendations for Stronger Encryption
A paper recently published at the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Denver, USA raises concerns about how Diffie-Hellman key exchange is implemented in many protocols including HTTPS, SSH, ...
Internet Society Supports the Let’s Encrypt Initiative to Increase End-to-End Encryption
The Internet Society sees encryption as a new norm to enhance the security of, and thereby trust in, the Internet. The community is establishing that norm: Encrypted end-to-end (server to ...
