Publications

Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Scoped DNS Challenges

Antonios Chariton, Amir Omidi, James Kasten, Fotis Loukos, and Stanislaw Janikowski
IETF Internet Draft, February 2024


Case Study: Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining a Publicly Trusted CA

Andy Warner, Rob Smits, Piotr Kucharski, Sergey Simakov, and James Kasten
Building Secure and Reliable Systems, O'Reilly, April 2020


Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web

Josh Aas, Richard Barnes, Benton Case, Zakir Durumeric, Peter Eckersley,
Alan Flores-López, J. Alex Halderman, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, James Kasten,
Eric Rescorla, Seth Schoen, and Brad Warren
Proc. 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security CCS ’19, London, England, November 2019


Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME)

Richard Barnes, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Daniel McCarney, and James Kasten
RFC 8555, March 2019


Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor MITM... An Empirical Analysis of Mail Delivery Security

Zakir Durumeric, David Adrian, Ariana Mirian, James Kasten, Kurt Thomas, Vijay Eranti,
Nicholas Lidzborski, Elie Bursztein, Michael Bailey, J. Alex Halderman
Proc. 15th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’15), Tokyo, Japan, October 2015 -- IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize Winner


The Matter of Heartbleed

Zakir Durumeric, Frank Li, James Kasten, Johanna Amann, Jethro Beekman, Mathias Payer,
Nicolas Weaver, David Adrian, Vern Paxson, Michael Bailey, and J. Alex Halderman
Proc. 14th Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’14), Vancouver, BC, November 2014 -- Best Paper Award


Analysis of the HTTPS Certificate Ecosystem

Zakir Durumeric, James Kasten, Michael Bailey, and J. Alex Halderman
Proc. 13th Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’13), Barcelona, Spain, October 2013


CAge: Taming Certificate Authorities by Inferring Restricted Scopes (extended paper)

James Kasten, Eric Wustrow, and J. Alex Halderman
Proc. 17th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC ’13), Okinawa, Japan, April 2013