Publication: Informing protocol design through crowdsourcing: The case of pervasive encryption
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2015-08-17
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Association For Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Abstract
Middleboxes, such as proxies, firewalls and NATs play
an important role in the modern Internet ecosystem.
On one hand, they perform advanced functions, e.g.
traffic shaping, security or enhancing application performance. On the other hand, they turn the Internet
into a hostile ecosystem for innovation, as they limit
the deviation from deployed protocols. It is therefore
essential, when designing a new protocol, to first understand its interaction with the elements of the path.
The emerging area of crowdsourcing solutions can help
to shed light on this issue. Such approach allows us to
reach large and different sets of users and also different types of devices and networks to perform Internet
measurements. In this paper, we show how to make informed protocol design choices by using a crowdsourcing platform. We consider a specific use case, namely
the case of pervasive encryption in the modern Internet. Given the latest public disclosures of the NSA
global surveillance operations, the issue of privacy in
the Internet became of paramount importance. Internet community efforts are thus underway to increase
the adoption of encryption. Using a crowdsourcing approach, we perform large-scale TLS measurements to
advance our understanding on whether wide adoption
of encryption is possible in today’s Internet.
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Proceeding of: C2B(1)D '15: 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Crowdsharing of Big (Internet) Data, August 17, 2015, London, United Kingdom
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Crowdsourcing, TLS, Internet measurements, Middleboxes
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C2B(I)D 2015: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Crowdsharing of Big (Internet) Data, Part of SIGCOMM'15, August 17, 2015, London, United Kingdom. New York: Association For Computing Machinery, pp.: 33-38.