Stuff I read last week

About: A collection of links and short commentary, published weekly. In theory the inclusion criteria are for it to be something I read last week (duh) and was either particularly interesting or something I might want to refer to later. Subscribe with RSS or see my main blog for long-form writing.

2017-04-09

Identifying HTTPS-Protected Netflix Videos in Real-Time Pre-computing a fingerprint for each video based on variable bit rate block sizes, and then using transport layer information to match connections with the fingerprints. Cool stuff. (I really should check whether this would be useful for identifying fast.com benchmark connections).
Sandboxing landscape A great survey of multi-tenancy sandboxing, for running untrusted code on shared (networking) infrastructure.
On the merits of QUIC for HTTP The appeal of merging together the application and transport layers.
mirage-tcpip A TCP/IP stack written in Ocaml, for the Mirage operating system. The state machine (that the link is pointing to) is absolutely beautiful.
Netstack A userspace network stack in Go, apparently for the Fuchsia OS. I tried reading through the TCP bits, but don't really get the structure nor the feature set selection. (Who implements SYN cookies before SACKs?).
Over The Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack (Part 1) Epic step-by-step article on hacking a wifi SOC.

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