Session 2 of the ARMOR side meeting starts today at 4 PM EST. We’ll be digging into next steps and shaping where this work goes next.

Agenda: trello.com/c/p4fjRkcl
Slides: github.com/grittygrease...
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Today is Global Encryption Day hosted by Global Encryption Coalition.

Check it out here: www.globalencryption.org/2025/07/glob...

The SplinterCon conference about the splintering Internet is coming up in Paris early December and has opened its call for presentations. It’s a great venue for early ideas in security, networking, and cryptography. Deadline: Oct 31, 2025. Apply here: splintercon.net/paris-partic...

Honored to be nominated for the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) for 2026–27. The IAB sets the Internet’s long-term technical direction and oversees the RFC Series and the IETF/IRTF. Feedback to the nominating committee is welcome: datatracker.ietf.org/nomcom/2025/..., I'd appreciate it!

At IETF124, the CFRG (where I co-chair) is testing a new session format: the first slot for new work and informational presentations, the second for consensus and advancing drafts. MLS (secure messaging) is also finalizing its extensions framework.
Full Agenda: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/124/...

My new explainer with @cdt.org covers how ECH closes one of the last major metadata gaps in HTTPS by making hostnames private. It’s been approved as an Internet Standard and is close to getting an RFC number: cdt.org/insights/enc...

We are hosting a side meeting for the ARMOR mailing list on Nov 3 at 19:00 EST (Duluth Room). We’ll be discussing how to make network protocols resilient in adversarial environments. Remote attendance welcome via WebEx: trello.com/c/8hhaa23A

Unsustainable tactic.

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The Internet was built to be open and neutral. ARMOR is about protecting that founding promise by strengthening secure, end-to-end connectivity against today’s adversarial network environment.

For years, the protocols that connect us online have inadvertently exposed user metadata. Network intermediaries exploit this to throttle, block, manipulate, and disrupt end-to-end communication.

That is why I helped launch ARMOR (Adaptive Resilience & Measurement for Operational Robustness), an open IRTF mailing list for academics, engineers, and rights advocates to collaborate on keeping end-to-end connectivity resilient.

What sort of organization? 501c3?

Coming soon!