[PLUG] REMINDER: Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting: Certificate Transparency with Jacob Hoffman-Andrews

[Russell Senior]

This is tomorrow (Thursday!)

On 1/22/26 19:11, Russell Senior wrote:
> Who: Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
> What: Certificate Transparency
> Where: 1930 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97201-5304, Room 86-01
> When: Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 7 PM
> Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
>
> 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 PLANTS for 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.
>
> Calagator: https://calagator.org/events/1250482398
>
> With luck, the talk will also be streamed live here: 
> http://www.twitch.tv/kngbwlf, and later posted to YouTube.
>
> PLUG is back at Portland State University, thanks to the Computer 
> Science Department and to Andrew Greenberg. The room is in the 
> basement of the PSU Engineering Building (also connected underground 
> to the Fourth Avenue Building, or FAB). Enter through the Engineering 
> Building. The outside door will be locked, but there should be someone 
> present at the entrance to let you in starting at 6:40pm until 7pm. 
> There will be a sign on the door with a phone number you can SMS if 
> there isn't someone there to let you in immediately.
>
>

-- 
Russell Senior
PLUG Volunteer
russell at personaltelco.net