This is a guest post by Blake Loring, a PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London. Blake worked at Cloudflare as an intern in the summer of 2017.
Compression is often considered an essential tool when reducing the bandwidth usage of internet services. The impact that the use of such compression schemes can have on security, however, has often been overlooked. The recently detailed CRIME, BREACH, TIME and HEIST attacks on TLS have shown that if an attacker can make requests on behalf of a user then secret information can be extracted from encrypted messages using only the length of the response. Deciding whether an element of a web-page should be secret often depends on the content of the page, however there are some common elements of web-pages which should always remain secret such as Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) tokens. Such tokens are used to ensure that malicious webpages cannot forge requests from a user by enforcing that any request must contain a secret token included in a previous response.
I worked at Cloudflare last summer to investigate possible solutions to this problem. The result is a project called cf-nocompress. The Continue reading
A look at how software-defined networking is expanding with the incorporation of analytics and how service providers are implementing the technology.
A look at how software-defined networking is expanding with the incorporation of analytics and how service providers are implementing the technology.
The pace of live webinar sessions will slow down a bit in April 2018 due to the onslaught of European spring holiday season. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to enjoy:
On April 19th we’ll have the first DIGS event in 2018, starting with introduction to SDDC and VMware NSX in the morning and NSX workshop in the afternoon.
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