Kat Joyce
Friday, April 27, 2018 at 11:30 AM in 373 Soda Hall
Title: Certificate Transparency (and other stories)
Abstract: Certificate Transparency (CT) is the new internet security mechanism that is making certificate misissuance and certificate authority misbehaviour easily and efficiently detectable. This talk will cover what CT is, how it works, and what it’s detected so far, before touching upon other types of Transparency that are now possible based on the underlying data structures that make up the foundation of CT.
Bio: Kat is a Software Engineer on the Certificate Transparency (CT) team at Google, where she is currently focusing on building infrastructure to check whether actors within the CT ecosystem are operating in line with various Chrome policies. Prior to Google, Kat was a Research Engineer in the Networks and Systems research group at UCL. Kat has an MSc in Information Security from UCL, and a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from Dalhousie University. In her spare time Kat loves to ski, swim, read, and play various musical instruments, with varying levels of success!