Defending the Olympics from DDoS
Guest Post: Organizers of the Rio Olympics were successfully able to defend against 540Gbps of sustained DDoS attacks during the games. Here’s how they did it.
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Reflecting on the IANA stewardship transition process
With a lot of work from the community, the IANA stewardship transition process has successfully achieved its goal.
A QUIC experiment with Chrome 52+
QUIC has been in Chrome for some years now but Chrome versions 52 and 53 will allow you to run your own QUIC service, if you like.
Challenges of HTTPS
Guest Post: In the third and final part of this series I will share with you some of the challenges of HTTPS.
IoT solutions to help reduce human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka
Guest Post: Simple IoT solutions can protect both lives and livelihoods in Sri Lanka.
Third Party DNS Operator to Registrars / Registries Protocol
APNIC is testing a new protocol that allows service operators to easily notify of DNS changes.
Are you Peering? Take the PCH survey
Guest Post: Take this global survey on peering agreements around the world – but hurry, the survey closes 15 October.
DNSSEC and ECDSA
Two years ago I reported on the use of the elliptical curve cryptographic algorithm in generating digital signatures for DNSSEC. Let’s see what’s changed over the past 24 months.
DDoS attackers – who and why?
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are on the increase. But what are the motivations of the attackers?
HTTPS: why is it so popular?
Guest Post: In the second part of this series we look at why HTTPS has become so popular among users and web domain owners.