The Week in Internet News: India Sets Record for Longest Internet Shutdown in a Democracy
The longest ever: The 130-day-plus shutdown of the Internet in the Indian region of Kashmir is now the longest ever in a democracy, the Washington Post notes. The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce estimates $1.4 billion in losses due to the shutdown. Meanwhile, the Indian government is stepping up its shutdown efforts in response to protests across the country, TechCrunch reports. The protests are largely focused on a new citizenship law, which creates a path to citizenship for immigrants of all the major religions except Islam.
Another encryption fight: There’s a battle brewing over the encryption of Internet traffic being pushed by Google and Cloudflare, the ACLU says in a blog post. Some U.S. telecom carriers are calling on Congress to stop the encryption efforts. The blog post has a good explanation of the technical issues, while taking sides in the debate.
New standards for the IoT: Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance are working on a new open-source networking standard for home Internet of Things connected devices, ZDNet reports. The Connected Home over IP standard aims to make it easier for various IoT devices to communicate with each other.
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Is AI the Antidote to Network Complexity?
While 5G and industrial IoT are still years from maturity, that's not stopping companies from...
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Network Break: The 2019 Wrap-Up Show
In our last episode of 2019, we cover several follow-ups and discuss news from Google and Cisco, and examine a new industry consortium to connect smart home devices. Have a happy holiday and a great new year and we'll see you in 2020.Network Break: The 2019 Wrap-Up Show
In our last episode of 2019, we cover several follow-ups and discuss news from Google and Cisco, and examine a new industry consortium to connect smart home devices. Have a happy holiday and a great new year and we'll see you in 2020.
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Learning, Grades and Certifications
Cleaning my Inbox I found links to two interesting blog post: The Lesson to Unlearn and Coders in the Hand of a Missing God.
You might also want to read my old certification ramblings, or watch the How Networks Really Work webinar in case you care more about knowledge than certifications.
How do RFC3161 timestamps work?
RFC3161 exists to demonstrate that a particular piece of information existed at a certain time, by relying on a timestamp attestation from a trusted 3rd party. It's the cryptographic analog of relying on the date found on a postmark or a notary public's stamp.How does it work? Let's timestamp some data and rip things apart as we go.
First, we'll create a document and have a brief look at it. The document will be one million bytes of random data:
$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=data bs=1000000 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1000000 bytes transferred in 0.039391 secs (25386637 bytes/sec)
$ ls -l data
-rw-r--r-- 1 chris staff 1000000 Dec 21 14:10 data
$ shasum data
3de9de784b327c5ecec656bfbdcfc726d0f62137 data
$
Next, we'll create a timestamp request based on that data. The -cert option asks the timestamp authority (TSA) to include their identity (certificate chain) in their reply and -no_nonce omits anti-replay protection from the request. Without specifying that option we'd include a large random number in the request.
$ openssl ts -query -cert -no_nonce < data | hexdump -C
Using configuration from /opt/local/etc/openssl/openssl.cnf
00000000 30 29 02 01 01 30 21 30 09 06 05 2b 0e 03 Continue readingThe Saga of T-Mobile US and Sprint’s Quest to Merge
While there have been many twists and turns in the 20 months since the deal was announced, the...
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First Half 2019 Transparency Report and an Update on a Warrant Canary
Today, we are releasing Cloudflare’s transparency report for the first half of 2019. We recognize the importance of keeping the reports current, but It’s taken us a little longer than usual to put it together. We have a few notable updates.
Pulling a warrant canary
Since we issued our very first transparency report in 2014, we’ve maintained a number of commitments - known as warrant canaries - about what actions we will take and how we will respond to certain types of law enforcement requests. We supplemented those initial commitments earlier this year, so that our current warrant canaries state that Cloudflare has never:
- Turned over our encryption or authentication keys or our customers' encryption or authentication keys to anyone.
- Installed any law enforcement software or equipment anywhere on our network.
- Terminated a customer or taken down content due to political pressure*
- Provided any law enforcement organization a feed of our customers' content transiting our network.
- Modified customer content at the request of law enforcement or another third party.
- Modified the intended destination of DNS responses at the request of law enforcement or another third party.
- Weakened, compromised, or subverted any of its encryption at the request of law Continue reading
Is VMware Winning the Cloud Wars?
In its most recent quarter VMware saw hybrid cloud and SaaS representing more than 13% of its total...
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NTT DoCoMo Trials Homegrown 5G RAN
Japan has a long history of designing and building its own radio access network (RAN) equipment for...
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Nvidia’s Mellanox Deal Gains EU Stamp
Nvidia's $6.9 billion quest to acquire Mellanox inched a little closer to completion after the...
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Microsoft, Ericsson Connect Clouds to Connect Cars
The collaboration will provide a “a comprehensive connected vehicle platform at scale to the...
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Stop SIS – Self-Inflicted Spam
Last month I ran across a great blog post by Jed Casey (@WaxTrax) about letting go of the digital hoard that he had slowly been collecting over the years. It’s not easy to declare bankruptcy because you’ve hit your limit of things that you can learn and process. Jed’s focus in the article is that whatever he was going to try and come up with was probably out of date or past its prime. But it got me to thinking about a little project that I’ve been working on over the past few months.
Incoming!
One of the easy ways to stay on top of things in the industry is to sign up for updates. A digest email here and a notification there about new posts or conversations is a great way to stay in-the-know about information or the latest, greatest thing. But before you know it you’re going to find yourself swamped with incoming emails and notifications.
I’ve noticed it quite a bit in my inbox this year. What was once a message that I would read to catch up became a message I would scan for content. That then became a message that I skipped past Continue reading
Weekly Wrap: Fortinet Leapfrogs Cisco With 21,000 SD-WAN Customers
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for Dec. 30, 2019: The SD-WAN space has become a numbers game; Google Cloud...
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Deutsche Welle Spotlights Tanzania’s Kondoa Community Network
Nearly half of the world lacks Internet access. But in rural Africa, the number is much higher: 86% of people are unconnected, with fewer women having access than men.
Deutsche Welle, Germany’s public broadcaster, shares the story of the Kondoa Community Network, a joint project of the Internet Society Tanzania Chapter and the University of Dodoma, that’s helping to close the digital divide. It’s connecting schools and community centers – and making a difference to young women.
Want to hear more?
Last year, Deutsche Welle profiled three additional community networks in Zimbabwe, the Republic of Georgia, and South Africa. Read about the community networks and listen to their stories!
The Internet is for everyone. Learn more about community networks and join the global movement to help close the digital divide!
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Last year review and resolutions for 2020
As the end of the year approaches, it is time to make a review of the past year and see what I would like to do, what I must do, and what I can improve in 2020. In brief, here’s my last year review and resolutions for 2020. 2019 Review New position This year was really intense for me; not only did I change company, but I also changed my main technology as a network engineer. I went from being a consultant in enterprise networking, doing routing, switching, wireless and…
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Heavy Networking 496: Packet Pushers 2019 Live Audience Q&A
The Packet Pushers hosted a livestream Q&A where a panel of commentators answered live audience questions. Topics covered include Cisco's new ASIC, whether multi-cloud will get its own hypervisor, a new Cisco certification path, and more.
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