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Sunsetting Tor Messenger
In 2015, we introduced Tor Messenger, a cross-platform chat program that aimed to be secure by...
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Oblivious DNS: Plugging the Internet’s Biggest Privacy Hole
by Annie Edmundson, Paul Schmitt, Nick Feamster The recent news that Cloudflare is deploying their own DNS recursive resolver has once again raised hopes that users will enjoy improved privacy, since they can send DNS traffic encrypted to Cloudflare, rather than to their ISP. In this post, we explain why this approach…
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1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. We're excited today to take another step toward that mission with the launch of 1.1.1.1 — the Internet's fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service. This post will talk a little about what that is and a lot about why we decided to do it.
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Just one QUIC bit
A proposal to add a "spin bit" to the QUIC protocol sparked much debate at IETF 101.
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TLS 1.3 approved
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Lightning on Stellar: Technical Spec and Roadmap
The technical specification and timeline for Lightning on Stellar, including working examples and an explanation of the new BUMP_SEQUENCE operation.
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Announcing gRPC Support in Nginx
NGINX now proxies gRPC traffic, so you can terminate, inspect, and route gRPC method calls. Manage encryption and load balance gRPC traffic.
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Apparent use of Sandvine devices for malicious or dubious ends in two countries
This report describes our investigation into the apparent use of Sandvine/Procera Networks Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices to deliver nation-state malware in Turkey and indirectly into Syria, and to covertly raise money through affiliate ads and cryptocurrency mining in Egypt.
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The real reason for large DDoS attacks? It's IP Spoofing, not memcached
A week ago we published a story about new amplification attacks using memcached protocol on UDP port 11211. A few things happened since then: Github announced it was a target of 1.3Tbps memcached attack. OVH and Arbor reported similar large attacks with the peak reported at 1.7Tbps.
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The Mystery of the Slow Downloads
A few months ago, a complaint started popping up from users downloading or updating our apps: “Geez, your downloads are really slow!”
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Mozilla Re-Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
This morning, the Federal Communications Commission officially published its order overturning net neutrality rules in the Federal Register. We had origina
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Eve Online Chat Is Moving to Ejabberd
I am player at heart. I do not have time to play much, but since my young years, I have always been fascinated by gameplay mechanisms, to…
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Networked Physics in Virtual Reality
Recently, Oculus teamed up with developer Glenn Fiedler for research into networked physics in VR. Below is a guest post from Glenn detailing his research.
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Discovering Issues in HTTP/2 with Chaos Testing
via Chaos Engineering we discovered that there are situations where HTTP/2 will perform worse than HTTP/1.
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Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs
Distributed database performance––both latency and uptime––can be dramatically improved with CDN-like multi-region deployments.
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Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
Today, Mozilla filed a petition in federal court in Washington, DC against the Federal Communications Commission for its recent decision to overturn the 20
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Do we really need a new BGP?
Guest post: BGP gets a bad rap from some but maybe the problem is with people not the protocol.
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Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America
Our examination of advertised prices shows that community-owned fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in the United States generally charge less for entry-level broadband service than do competing private providers, and don’t use initial low “teaser” rates that sharply rise months later.
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Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
In collaboration with Signal, Microsoft is introducing a Private Conversations feature in Skype, powered by Signal Protocol.
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WPA3 Wifi Security Protocol Announced
New Wi-Fi® security features available in 2018Las Vegas, NV – January 8, 2018 – Wi-Fi Alliance® introduces enhancements and new features for Wi-Fi Protected Access®, the essential family of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ security technologies for more than a decade. Wi-Fi Alliance is launching configuration, authentication, and…
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California Introduces Its Own Bill to Protect Net Neutrality
2018 has barely begun, and so has the fight to preserve net neutrality. January 3 was the first day of business in the California state legislature, and state Sen. Scott Wiener used it to introduce legislation to protect net neutrality for Californians. As the FCC has sought to abandon its role as...
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