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Folding SSL/TLS into TCP to gain efficiency
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Investigating Surfshark and NordVPN with JA4T FoxIO Blog
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| | Surfshark & NordVPN Route Certain Ports Through Proxies?
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How Does HTTP/2 Work? | Kevin Sookocheff
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| | Note: To make this easier to read (and write), h1 may be used in place of HTTP/1, and h2 may used in place of HTTP/2. HTTP/1 has a long and storied history. Originally developed as a sixty page specification documented in RFC 1945, it was designed to handle text-based pages that leverage hypermedia to connect documents to each other. Typical web pages would kilobytes of data. For example, the first web page was a simple text file with web links to other text documents. Now, the web is made up of media-rich sites containing images, scripts, stylesheets, fonts, and more. The size of a typical web page is measured in megabytes rather than kilobytes, and the number of requests required to assemble a full page can be over one hundred. The reality of how web pages...
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Internet 101: TCP
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| | [AI summary] This article provides a technical overview of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), explaining how it ensures reliable data transfer over an unreliable network using concepts like ports, sequence numbers, acknowledgments, and connection handshakes.
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Against XMPP+OMEMO - Dhole Moments
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| XMPP is a messaging protocol (among other things) that needs no introduction to any technical audience. Its various implementations have proliferated through technical communities for decades. Many large tech companies today used to run XMPP servers. However, the basic protocol transmitted plaintext. If you were lucky, it was plaintext over SSL/TLS, but servers could still...