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Google’s QUIC protocol: moving the web from TCP to UDP
QUIC replaces TCP with UDP for faster connections, eliminating head-of-line blocking and reducing latency. Learn how it works and why it matters.
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Curl and http/2 on Mac
$ curl ‐‐http2 https://daniel.haxx.se/ curl: (1) Unsupported protocol curl on mac curl has been shipped by default on Mac OS X since many years - I actually couldn't even manage to figure out exactly how many. It is built and bundled with the operating system by Apple itself and on Apple's own terms and even ……
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The Golden Age of Open Protocols
Protocols are a geeky topic. It’s way more interesting to talk about applications. People will go on and on about why they like gmail or some other email application. But not a lot of people get excited about SMTP and IMAP which are the underlying email protocols that allow the gmail application to talk to […]
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Building a software-defined radio from scratch
The FreeSRP is an affordable software-defined radio (SDR) I decided to design because there were no existing options that filled the gap between the $300 and relatively narrow bandwidth and low resolution HackRF and the better performing USRP s you can get for about $700. Of course it will be fully open source, but…
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The End of Gmane?
In 2002, I grew annoyed with not finding the obscure technical information I was looking for, so I started Gmane, the mailing list archive. All technical discussion took place on mailing lists thos…
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Let's Encrypt now fully supports IPv6
Let’s Encrypt is happy to announce full support for IPv6. As IPv4 address space is exhausted, more and more people are deploying services that are only reachable via IPv6. Adding full support for IPv6 allows us to serve more people and organizations, which is important if we’re going to encrypt the entire Web. IPv6 is…
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HTTPS Adoption doubled this year
Despite having been around for over 20 years, HTTPS always remained very lightly adopted – until 2016. Data from two independent sources shows that HTTPS adoption more than doubled from 2015 to 2016. Snyk CEO Guy Podjarny digs into this data.
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My Experience With the Great Firewall of China
When I recently visited China for the first time,as an InfoSec professional I was very curious to finally be able to poke at theGreatFirewall of China with m...
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Usenet Tradecraft: Survival in an Extremely Adversarial Environment (2013)
Survival in an Extremely Adversarial Environment If your secure communications platform isn’t being used by terrorists and pedophiles, you&# …
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Getting a network trace from a single application
I recently wanted a way to get a network packet trace from a specific application. My googling showed me an old askubuntu thread that solve...
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Why we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack
A recent blog post posed the question Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack?. It triggered a very interesting discussion on Hacker News.
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Introducing OpenCellular: An open source wireless access platform
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I tried to watch Game of Thrones legally in France, Here is what happened
As many of my friends in France started watching the last season of Game Of Thrones: I decided to start watching it too.
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StartEncrypt considered harmful today
Inzichten over cybersecurity trends, threat intelligence, compliance-updates en technische verdiepingen van het DEFION-team.
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Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data
This post guides you through monitoring and tuning the Linux network stack with the focus on receiving data.
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Progress Towards 100% HTTPS, June 2016
Our goal with Let’s Encrypt is to get the Web to 100% HTTPS. We’d like to give a quick progress update. Let’s Encrypt has issued more than 5 million certificates in total since we launched to the general public on December 3, 2015. Approximately 3.8 million of those are active, meaning unexpired and unrevoked. Our…
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SPF, DMARC, and DKIM: How to Keep Your Email Out of the Spam Folder
Insights gleaned from years in the trenches. Truly essential tips, practices, and guides for achieving WordPress success.
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Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent
This post explores using WebTorrent for serverless data synchronization in web apps, demonstrated by modifying the Voice Memos PWA. The goal was to enable data sharing between devices without a backend server. The solution involves generating magnet URLs that allow peer-to-peer data transfer via WebTorrent. The demo…
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