Monitoring TLS adoption using backbone and edge traffic

Chia Ling Chan; Romain Fontugne; Kenjiro Cho; Shigeki Goto

doi:10.1109/INFCOMW.2018.8406957

Monitoring TLS adoption using backbone and edge traffic

Chia Ling Chan, Romain Fontugne, Kenjiro Cho, Shigeki Goto

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Abstract

Security and privacy have become major concerns for Internet communications. In order to prevent eavesdropping and tampering a lot of Internet protocols rely the Transport Security Layer (TLS). In this paper we aim to quantify the adoption of TLS using passive traffic traces captured on a backbone and edge academic network in Japan. We monitor the evolution of five common protocols and their TLS-variants over ten years of traffic data. We found that the adoption of TLS for HTTP really started around 2012, while IMAP traffic is mostly encrypted for the last ten years. The deployment of HTTPS is mainly driven by large content providers and migrating the remaining HTTP traffic to HTTPS might require significant efforts as it concerns numerous smaller services.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	208-213
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538659793
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2018.8406957
Publication status	Published - 2018 Jul 6
Event	2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM 2018 - Honolulu, United States Duration: 2018 Apr 15 → 2018 Apr 19

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Other	2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	18/4/15 → 18/4/19

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Optimization
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications

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Chan, CL, Fontugne, R, Cho, K & Goto, S 2018, Monitoring TLS adoption using backbone and edge traffic. in INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 208-213, 2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM 2018, Honolulu, United States, 18/4/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOMW.2018.8406957

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