Plenary on Internet Hardening

November 1, 2013

Technical Topic: Internet Hardening

New reports of large-scale Internet traffic monitoring appear almost every day.  We were all aware that targeted interception was taking place, but the scale and scope in the recent reports is surprising. Such scale was not envisaged during the design of many Internet protocols; the threat is quite different than expected.  Now, the Internet community must consider the consequences.

While details of these attack techniques remain largely unknown, we can talk about possible ways to harden the Internet in light of pervasive Internet monitoring.  We can take a closer look at our protocols and the security properties that they provide.

A panel will summarize recent discussions and suggest potential IETF actions to make large-scale monitoring more difficult.