January 10, 2025
At first, the idea of encrypting more of the metadata found inside the initial packet (the “ClientHello”) of a TLS connection may seem …
November 10, 2023
The Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) mechanism draft-spec is a way to plug a few privacy-holes that remain in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol …
November 9, 2023
Encrypted ClientHello (ECH) plugs a privacy-hole in TLS, hiding previously visible details from network observers. The most important being the name …
December 8, 2021
Debian’s package manager apt has a time-tested method of securely providing packages from the network built on OpenPGP signatures. Even though …
November 30, 2021
As part of the DEfO project, we have been working on accelerating the development Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) as standardized by the IETF. ECH is the …
December 17, 2019
A new NetCipher library has recently been merged: netcipher-conscrypt. In the same vein as the other NetCipher libraries, netcipher-conscrypt wraps …
February 12, 2014
The HTTPS protocol is based on TLS and SSL, which are standard ways to negotiate encrypted connections. There is a lot of complexity in the protocols …
November 21, 2013
Voice over IP (VoIP) has been around for a long time. It’s ubiquitous in homes, data centers and carrier networks. Despite this ubiquity, security is …
November 15, 2012
A major problem of mobile applications being increasingly used over web-based applications, is that there is no standard established for notifying the …