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It’s an established fact on the internet that we have ran out of IP(v4) addresses , and we are starting to see the pressure on obtaining IPv4 space. For example if you want to get a /24 block from RIPE NCC when you sign up as a member, then you are currently looking at a 2 month wait for a recycled IPv4 /24 block .
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It was launched to measure moisture. Now it’s ghost-trailing jammers across an electronic battlefield.
In our State of the Union blog post, I mentioned that we’ve been working on some iOS proof of concept / research projects here in the Panic Office. It’s been a lot of fun for us.
This document provides the GNU Name System (GNS) technical specification. GNS is a decentralized and censorship-resistant domain name resolution protocol that provides a privacy-enhancing alternative to the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. This document defines the normative wire format of resource records…
The new JMAP email protocol provides a modern, efficient, easy-to-use API, built on many years of experience and field testing.
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AWS will charge for IPv4 addresses but its IPv6 support lacks severely
I’m thrilled to report that the OpenID Connect specifications have now been published as ISO/IEC standards. They are:
I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go to space. —— Stephen Hawking Starlink is a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet service provided by SpaceX. Users connect to near-Earth orbit satellites through a user terminal, which then connects to the internet via ground gateways. Basic Starlink network…
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has published RFC8890, The Internet is for End Users, arguing that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) should ground its decisions in what’s good for people who use the Internet, and that it should take positive steps to achieve that.
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For the past week, the website "GitHub" has been under attack by China. In this post, I pin-point where the attack is coming from by doing a...
Learn how a Google spoof used a DKIM replay attack to bypass email security and trick users with a fake subpoena in this real-world phishing case.
During the months I worked in Let's Encrypt's operations team I got fairly used to being the go-to man for any question that a database query could solve.…
Mullvad has been a Tor Project Vidalia Onion Member since 2021 and has now become a Shallot Onion Member of Tor.
Explain like I’m 5 years old: Kerberos – what is Kerberos, and why should I care?
Taara is now an independent company with a mission to bring high-speed, affordable and abundant connectivity to people everywhere using beams of light.
How I set up my home lab to be my very own cloud.
I'll generally ignore the internet froth in a given week as much as possible, but when Her Majesty's Government starts repeating misunderstandings about TLS 1.3 it is necessary to write something, if only to have a pointer ready for when people start citing it as evidence.
Here is a plea to keep Internet services on in these times where we rely on online communications.
It’s not enough to say that the Internet is built on interoperability. The Internet is interoperability. Billions of machines around the world use the same set of open protocols—like TCP/IP, HTTP, and TLS—to talk to one another. The first Internet-connected devices were only possible because phone...
