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Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China
This report examines the encryption that protects meetings in Zoom and finds that they have made their own encryption scheme and has significant weaknesses.
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How Tailscale Works
Understand the entire Tailscale system, how it works, how we built it, and its benefits compared to legacy VPNs. Use this article as a guide to quickly build your own Tailscale replacement.
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Good-bye ESNI, hello ECH!
A deep dive into the Encrypted Client Hello, a standard that encrypts privacy-sensitive parameters sent by the client, as part of the TLS handshake.
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Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH
Oblivious DoH (ODoH) makes secure DNS over HTTPS (DoH) queries into private queries which prevent the leakage of client IP addresses to resolvers. The new proposed ODoH standard addresses this problem and today we are enabling users to use this protocol with 1.1.1.1
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BitTorrent v2
libtorrent-2.0 has just been released with a few major new features. One of them is support for BitTorrent v2 .
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1.1.1.1 for Families
Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families — the easiest way to add a layer of protection to your home network and protect it from malware and adult content.
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What end-to-end encryption should look like
Check out our progress in end-to-end encryption calls in Jitsi. Give us your crypto knowledge feedback with the code and learn how to demo it here.
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Riot is now Element
Hi everyone, We are incredibly excited to announce that Riot is now Element! In fact we have simplified all our naming: Element is also the name for New Vector (the company behind Riot) while Modular, our flagship Matrix hosting service, has become Element Matrix Services. For those discovering us for
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Looking back at how Signal works
In the midst of world-wide protests against racism and police brutality, a lot of people are becoming more immediately aware and concerned about the security of their data and online communication. We’ve gotten a lot of questions at Signal over the past week, so we wanted to briefly recap how it ...
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The facts around Zoom and encryption for meetings/webinars
Learn more about how to use each Zoom product to connect with coworkers, customers, businesses, and more with insights and best practices.
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Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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IPv6 WireGuard Peering
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Cloudflare One
Today we’re announcing Cloudflare One. It provides secure, fast, reliable, cost-effective network services, integrated with leading identity management and endpoint security providers.
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Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users.
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Mailing lists are resistant to censorship
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody knows, when your DNS is gone,…
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Running your own secure communication service with Matrix and Jitsi
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic
Guest Post: With 70% of market share, Chromium has had a significant impact on the total root DNS traffic.
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A legislative path to an interoperable internet
It’s not enough to say that the Internet is built on interoperability. The Internet is interoperability. Billions of machines around the world use the same set of open protocols—like TCP/IP, HTTP, and TLS—to talk to one another. The first Internet-connected devices were only possible because phone...
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Firefox turns on DoH as default for US users
Today, Firefox began the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users. The rollout will continue over the next few weeks to conf
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Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
To help businesses, schools, and others navigate remote work and life, we're making our premium video conferencing solution free for all.
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US internet speeds 91% faster in 2020 according to user speed tests
Internet speeds in the US were more than twice as fast as Europe's in 2021.
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Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications