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Encrypted DNS and NTP = Deadlock
I recently found out the hard way that encrypted DNS can deadlock with NTP on embedded devices without a battery-backed clock.
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 1,615 posts.
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Attack of the week: DUHK
Before we get started, fair warning: this is going to be a post about a fairly absurd (but non-trivial!) attack on cryptographic systems. But that’s ok, because it’s based on a fairly a…
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Tin Can Phone Modem
Mike Kohn's music, software, and electronics projects.
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Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1 (2013)
Useful old technologies: ASN.1
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Using SNI proxying and IPv6 to share port 443 between webapps
I hate HTTP reverse proxies and want my webapps to listen directly on port 443. How can I make this work in a world of IPv4 scarcity?
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Yes, the Book of PF, fourth edition is coming soon
© 2025 Peter N. M. Hansteen Long rumored and eagerly anticipated by some, the fourth edition of The Book of PF is now available for ...
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Fixing the Ethernet Board from a Vintage Xerox Alto
A Xerox Alto system on the East coast had Ethernet problems, so the owner sent me the Ethernet board to diagnose. (After restoring our Alto,...
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eBPF Networking Techniques – Packet Redirection
This is the first post of a many planned to shed light on the various networking techniques eBPF makes available to a Linux network developer.
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Email Done My Way, Part 0 – The Journey
Warning. This whole series is not a simple HOWTO. This series is about how I run my mail server. I go through the configuration, line by line and explain. It’s not going to be a simple Copy/Paste to run your own mail server. You have been warned.
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Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0
Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0 Bernstein, 2007 I find security much more important than speed. We need invulnerable software systems, and we need them today, even if they ar…
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A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023)
For the last month, I’ve been using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat between me and my wife Sandra, at least.
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Mastodon Is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media – In a Good Way
A comment on a Hacker News thread inspired me to contemplate why Mastodon is everything we loved about social media before…
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TCP connection timeout mystery
For over a year, I’ve been investigating a strange issue with the internet in my apartment. I’m posting the details here in case someone more knowledgeable than me can solve the mystery. I live in graduate student housing with internet provided by the university campus. Usually things work reasonably well, with one…
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TCP/IP over audio
We present a simple to use implementation of networking across ultrasonic frequencies, by making use of Gnuradio and a microphone and speakers. This allows you to use TCP/IP , UDP across an audio link.
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Telegram stalking
Update 20151216: This quick post got far more attention than expected. I regret not mentioning that the leakage can easily be prevented via a setting. In practice the problem remains, users in general will have no idea about this being a relevant setting to change and will stay with the default. The best discussion on…
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The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
Oscar is on the web
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Building a legacy search engine for a legacy protocol
Most users who use the internet today, are mostly focused on three protocols, HTTP, TLS, and DNS.
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The text adventure game of exiting a Telnet session
We've all been there, right? You debug something, you try telnet to see if a port is open, and now you're stuck in a telnet session.
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Message order in Matrix: right now, we are deliberately inconsistent
Coding in Rust and others; making coding videos.
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Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the protocol involved in getting the lock icon to appear in your browser next to the URL. Under the hood it uses a bunch of really cool numbers for encryption. Some numbers are considered private and need securing; some are considered public and are fine for sharing. You can mix your…
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My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf
The files mentioned in this article are available for viewing or cloning here: the 'pf-bedtime' repo .
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Hyperlocal Mesh Networks
The NY Times has a post up this morning about a neighborhood in Brooklyn called Red Hook where they have built a hyperlocal mesh network to service the entire neighborhood, from housing projects to townhouses. Red Hook is a cool place. We were there last night to sample Hometown Bar-B-Que‘s massive beef ribs and a […]
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