Portland Linux/Unix Group General Monthly Meeting: Certificate Transparency with Jacob Hoffman-Andrews

Description
Summary:
 
 A few things like the recent update to the Certificate Transparency ecosystem to allow the “static CT API”, which is much cheaper to operate; and the new IETF working group PLANTSfor Merkle Tree Certificates and why it’s relevant to Post-Quantum cryptography. I’ll provide an intro about what Certificate Transparency is.
 
 Bio:
 
 Jacob Hoffman-Andrews leads EFF's work on the Let's Encrypt project, which assists over 400 million domain names in providing HTTPS encryption to their visitors. His areas of interest also include AI, online authentication (in particular multifactor authentication and passkeys), trusted execution environments and attestations, browser security, DNS, and memory safety. Besides Let's Encrypt's Boulder software, he is a maintainer of the go-jose package, rustdoc, and ureq. Tags: plug, linux, certificate transparency Imported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482398
Start Time
Feb 6, 2026, 3:00 AM
End Time
Feb 6, 2026, 5:00 AM
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Location
Portland State University Fourth Avenue Building (FAB) Room FAB 86-01: 1900 Southwest 4th Avenue, Portland OR 97201 US