IETF to improve the security of Internet protocols

At its meeting in Vancouver this week, the IETF has discussed what it could do to turn its plan to protect the web from government spying into action. As a standards organization responsible for developing the foundation of services and technologies used billions of times every day, IETF participants are rethinking approaches to security across a wide range of technical areas.

"Ensuring the global Internet is a trusted platform for billions of users is a core and ongoing concern for the IETF community. Discussions over the past few months, including many in the more than 100 working group sessions this week, are carefully and systematically reviewing Internet security and exploring ways to improve privacy and other aspects of security for different applications," said Jari Arkko, Chair of the IETF.

Notes from the Vancouver meeting suggest meetings considered a few ways to harden the internet, including transport layer security (TLS) and "possibilities to get the TLS-secured versions more widely and consistently deployed."

Another proposed approach was to organize a team of developers to make an open-source hardware and software crytopgraphy engine platform that could be used to add security to various places on the network.

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