RevokeSSL: An Independent Revocation Service using the Bitcoin Blockchain

Christopher Allen and Matthew Schutte will present on RevokeSSL (https://github.com/ChristopherA/revocable-self-signed-tls-certificates-hack). Up until now, users have had poor ability to quickly and reliably check whether an SSL Security Certificate has been revoked. The methods that have been used to communicate revocations to date (CRL's and OCSP) are dependent on the survival and integrity of a single party (the issuing Certificate Authority), work only in limited contexts, are often unrelia…