QUIC is in late draft, HTTP/3 is shipping in Chrome and Firefox, and Cloudflare and Google are already serving meaningful traffic over both. The internet's transport layer is being rewritten. This is what changed, why it changed, and what it means for everyone who runs servers.
tag: #networking
3 posts
5 years ago
HTTP/3 and QUIC - What's About to Replace TCP
Jason Donenfeld submitted WireGuard for inclusion in the Linux kernel mainline in August. Even before merge, the four-thousand-line VPN is already faster, simpler, and more secure than OpenVPN or IPsec. Here is what it is, why the design matters, and how to deploy it now.
Mathy Vanhoef forced WPA2 to reinstall a key it was already using, resetting the nonce and handing an attacker the keystream. Every correct implementation was affected, and Linux managed to be affected worst of all by installing an all-zero key. Here is the handshake, the flaw, and why the link layer was never where your trust belonged.
< newer
2/2