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T1 Informing protocol design through crowdsourcing: The case of pervasive encryption
A1 Mandalari, Anna María
A1 Bagnulo Braun, Marcelo Gabriel
A1 Lutu, Andra Elena
AB Middleboxes, such as proxies, firewalls and NATs playan 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 Internetinto a hostile ecosystem for innovation, as they limitthe deviation from deployed protocols. It is thereforeessential, when designing a new protocol, to first understand its interaction with the elements of the path.The emerging area of crowdsourcing solutions can helpto shed light on this issue. Such approach allows us toreach large and different sets of users and also different types of devices and networks to perform Internetmeasurements. In this paper, we show how to make informed protocol design choices by using a crowdsourcing platform. We consider a specific use case, namelythe case of pervasive encryption in the modern Internet. Given the latest public disclosures of the NSAglobal surveillance operations, the issue of privacy inthe Internet became of paramount importance. Internet community efforts are thus underway to increasethe adoption of encryption. Using a crowdsourcing approach, we perform large-scale TLS measurements toadvance our understanding on whether wide adoptionof encryption is possible in today’s Internet.
PB Association For Computing Machinery (ACM)
SN 978-1-4503-3539-3
YR 2015
FD 2015-08-17
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34658
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34658
LA eng
NO Proceeding of: C2B(1)D '15: 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Crowdsharing of Big (Internet) Data, August 17, 2015, London, United Kingdom
NO The work of Anna Maria Mandalari has been funded by the EU FP7 METRICS (607728) project. The work of Marcelo Bagnulo has been funded by the EU FP7 Trilogy2 (317756) project.
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