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One of my heroes has always been Van Jacobson. His 1988 paper on solving TCP congestion is an enjoyable read, with cross-discipline appeal. The history of all this is fascinating, such as congestio…
This is part 2 of a series on the security of HTTPS and TLS/SSL. [Part 1] In a previous post, we discussed some structural insecurities in HTTPS and TLS/SSL, and how those are beginning to pose serious problems for the security of the Web. In this post I will introduce a new proposal called "...
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Oh, boy has it been quiet here. I have used wayback machine to pull a bunch of older content into the repo so that it can be shared with you beautiful people. There was no real reason to do that except I get annoyed by broken links. Really annoyed. It seems every time I reach back into my bookmarks for something the…
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As part of the "Let's make the web faster" initiative, we are experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of web pages. One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY"), an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web, designed specifically for minimal latency. In…
Feb 2015: 3½ years later, we’re in a better place. The new IE Spartan project has killed off document modes . (Technically, still possible in firewall environments, but… effectively dead for us.) These days, our IE support landscape is IE8 (still), IE11, and IE Mobile. 3 is definitely better than 72.
I've been working on implementing SPDY as an experiment in Firefox lately. We'll have to see how it plays out, but so far I really like it. ...
The short version: Tor relays and bridges should upgrade to Tor 0.2.2.33 or Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha so...
Arduino Websocket Client Arduino Pusher Client Pusher – Real Time Push Notifications Follow Me On Twitter: @kevinrohling If you don’t have your very own Arduino yet you should get one. …
This morning on 9/13/2011 at approximately 4:20 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7), the uTorrent.com and BitTorrent.com Web servers were compromised. Our standard Windows software download was replaced with a type of fake antivirus “scareware” program. (UPDATE: See below for removal instructions.) Just…
Introduction I recently bought a D-Link DCS-2121 surveillance camera. This is good stuff: Megapixel camera + microphone + speaker WiFi,...
Now that GoDaddy is a near monopoly (larger than the next 8 closest registrar competitors combined 1 ), and just got bought out on July 1, 2011 2 , they have decided they can defy the sacred. Customers be damned.
About an hour ago I was contacted by the Dutch Government with more details about the DigiNotar...
If you want to be really evil, however, *.google.com is the wrong SSL certificate to forge. The right one? ssl.google-analytics.com .
Posted by Heather Adkins, Information Security Manager Today we received reports of attempted SSL man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks again...
