Episode 8 (2020): Sylvain Besençon - Securing by hacking: maintenance regimes around an end-to-end encryption standard

In this session, we interview Sylvain Besençon a PhD student in
anthropology at the University of Fribourg. 

In his presentation, he talks about internet standards, which are
elementary and powerful bricks of the Internet infrastructure:
they define how the Internet should work and help developers to
code their pieces of software accordingly. However, regularly,
there are some voices or hacks that destabilize them and open the
door to radical uncertainties about the reliability of the
software we use, especially when crucial information is at stake.
Based on digital ethnography as well as interviews and
observations at international conferences, his paper takes as
departure point the disclosure process of a series of
vulnerabilities that affects an end-to-end email encryption
standard called OpenPGP, used mostly by computer engineers,
activists and journalists.