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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 172 posts.
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Let's Code a TCP/IP Stack: TCP Retransmission
At this point we have a TCP/IP stack that is able to communicate to other hosts in the Internet. The implementation so far has been fairly straight-forward, but missing a major feature: Reliability. Namely, our TCP does not guarantee the integrity of the data stream it presents to applications. Even establishing the…
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A solution for enabling UDP in the web
Premise In 2017 the most popular web games like agar.io are networked via WebSockets over TCP. If a UDP equivalent of WebSockets could be incorporated into browsers, it would greatly improve the networking of these games. Background Web browsers are built on top of HTTP, which is a stateless request/response protocol…
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FCC Filings Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality Once Spam Is Removed
An Explosion of Comments
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An analysis of the Nomx secure communications device
With slick marketing, catchy taglines and some pretty bold claims about their security, nomx claim to have cracked email security. Let's see if they have.
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SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling
Update 28.01.16 I found some sites referring to this post. Below are the common complaints I saw, and my replies:
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BBR, the new kid on the TCP block
A look at Google's delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm, called BBR.
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Stupidly Simple DDoS Protocol (SSDP) Generates 100 Gbps DDoS
Last month we shared statistics on some popular reflection attacks. Back then the average SSDP attack size was ~12 Gbps.
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Introducing Network Service Tiers
We're excited to announce Network Service Tiers Alpha , making Google Cloud Platform (GCP) the first major public cloud to offer a tiered cloud network. We let you optimize for performance by choosing Premium Tier, which uses Google’s global network with unparalleled quality of service, or optimize for cost, using the…
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Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture
Today, we gave a keynote presentation at the Open Networking Summit, where we shared details about Espresso, Google’s peering edge architecture—the latest offering in ou…
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The foundation of a more secure web: Google Trust Services
Posted by Ryan Hurst, Security and Privacy Engineering In support of our work to implement HTTPS across all of our products ( https://www.g...
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Introducing ProtonMail's Tor hidden service
As part of our efforts to continue protecting user privacy, we are launching a Tor hidden service to combat censorship and surveillance of Proton Mail users.
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How Wi-Fi Works
See if you qualify for Fios, 5G Home Internet, or LTE Home Internet with Verizon. View plans, promos, and deals. Plans start at $35/mo.
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Explain like I’m 5: Kerberos (2013)
Explain like I’m 5 years old: Kerberos – what is Kerberos, and why should I care?
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Redoing all my home networking
How I set up my home lab to be my very own cloud.
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ShadowBrokers: The NSA Compromised the SWIFT Network
This is by far, the most interesting release from Shadow Brokers as it does not only contain tools — but also materials describing the most…
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Irssi 1.0.0 Released
Irssi 1.0.0 has been released. This release contains many improvements. Irssi 1.0.0 includes contributions by Lukas Mai, Xavier G, Kenny Root, Jari Matilainen, Todd A. Pratt, Manish Goregaokar, B. Thibault, Joseph Bisch, Will Storey, Lauri Tirkkonen, Lauri Nurmi, Tom Feist, Thomas Samson, Dennis Schagt, Mantas…
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Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfortable
Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortable Remember Mastodon? In April 2017, there was a wave of excitement about Mastodon, a federated social network begun in October 2016 by Eugen …
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AWS Network Load Balancer
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) has been an important part of AWS since 2009, when it was launched as part of a three-pack that also included Auto Scaling and Amazon CloudWatch. Since that time we have added many features, and also introduced the Application Load Balancer. Designed to support application-level…
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.IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them
Switching from a .io domain name to a .com domain name helped with downtime and improve reliability on our API clients.Domain resolution is one of the backbone services of the Internet. It's something we typically spend very little time thinking about. Of course, that changes when it breaks. Over the past year, IO…
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Someone Created a Tor Hidden Service to Phish My Tor Hidden Service
SMS Privacy is available as a Tor hidden service, and it turns out ~10% of users actually use it that way. This post details what I found when somebody created a phishing site of my Tor hidden service.
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By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation
When I first arrived at MIT in 2010, I was awed by how much computing infrastructure was readily available. Dorm rooms had 100 megabit inter...
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(n+1)sec – a protocol for distributed multiparty chat encryption
Today we present (n+1)sec, a free (libre), end-to-end secure, synchronous protocol for group chat developed by eQualit.ie with support from the Open Technology Fund. After 2 years of design, development and testing, we are releasing the (n+1)sec protocol and library for securing group conversations on various…
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Important security vulnerabilities in OpenVPN
UPDATE: OpenVPN fuzzers now released. Summary I’ve discovered 4 important security vulnerabilities in OpenVPN. Interestingly, these were not found by the two recently completed audits of Open…