Secure-Messaging-Summit

Secure Messaging Summit 2020 Resources

Hello!

Thank you so much for having attended the Secure Messaging Summit 2020 or for being interested by it! Here you can find some resources of it.

Slides

• For ‘Resolving Concurrency in Group Ratcheting Protocols’ by Paul Rösler, the slides can be found here.
• For ‘Mobile Private Contact Discovery’ by Daniel Kales, the slides can be found here.
• For ‘What user studies tell us about secure messaging?’ by Nikolas Unger, find the handout here.

Video recordings

The Secure Messaging Summit Chanel can be found here.

Recording for the talks and panel:

• ‘The Simulation Paradigm and Deniable Communications’ by Rosario Gennaro: recording here.
• ‘Resolving Concurrency in Group Ratcheting Protocols’ by Paul Rösler: recording here.
• ‘Messaging Layer Security (MLS)’ by Raphael Robert: recording here.
• ‘Mobile Private Contact Discovery’ by Daniel Kales: recording here.
• ‘How to Avoid Invisible Salamanders: Cryptographic Tools for Moderation in Encrypted Messaging’ by Thomas Ristenpart: recording here.
• Panel around secure messaging: recording here.

Additional resources

Deniability

• End-to-End Secure Mobile Group Messaging with Conversation Integrity and Deniability by Michael Schliep and Nicholas J. Hopper.

Group Ratcheting and concurrency

• Efficient Post-Compromise Security Beyond One Group by Cas Cremers, Britta Hale and Konrad Kohbrok.
• Group Messaging for Secure Asynchronous Collaboration by Matthew A. Weidner.

Mobile (Private) Contact Discovery

• Mobile (Private) Contact Discovery

User studies and secure messaging

• Rethinking Connection Security Indicators by Adrienne Porter Felt, Robert W. Reeder, Alex Ainslie, Helen Harris, Max Walker, Christopher Thompson, Mustafa Embre Acer, Elisabeth Morant, and Sunny Consolvo.
• Turtles, Locks, and Bathrooms: Understanding Mental Models of Privacy Through Illustration by Maggie Oates, Yama Ahmadullah, Abigail Marsh and Chelse Swoopes.

Secure messaging panel links

• EFF predictions about attempts to undermine e2e encryption in the last four years
• Details of “The Ghost” – a proposed method to sabotage E2E by mandating deceitful user interfaces. Find it here.
• The EU’s new stance on the importance for companies to monitor end-to-end encrypted electronic communications to detect and report child sexual abuse. Find it here

Sponsors

The event was nicely sponsored by NLnet.