IETF Hackathon: Getting TLS 1.3 working in the browser

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) community has been working on improving and expanding the use of technical foundations for internet security, including updates to Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS 1.3 was first drafted in April 2014, with ongoing work since then aimed at providing a solid base for broad deployment of improved security on the global internet. In February 2016, the Internet Society hosted the TRON workshop, which concluded that TLS 1.3 was not yet ready due to insufficient real-world testing and unimplemented features. A recent IETF Hackathon in Buenos Aires focused on integrating TLS 1.3 into Firefox and demonstrating interoperability with CloudFlare's test site, achieving significant progress towards making the protocol production-ready.