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Does The Internet Route Around Damage? - Edition 2021

Does The Internet Route Around Damage? - Edition 2021

Emile Aben

7 min read

On 23 March 2021, LINX London experienced an outage. As this is one of the very large Internet Exchange Points, this is an interesting case to study in more depth in order to see what we can learn about Internet robustness.

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RPKI and AS3333 or “How We Eat Our Own Dog Food”

RPKI and AS3333 or “How We Eat Our Own Dog Food”

Nathalie Trenaman

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Route Origin Validation (ROV) is a mechanism by which route advertisements can be authenticated as originating from an expected autonomous system (AS). With the RIPE NCC all set to perform ROV on AS3333, Nathalie Trenaman talks about why we've held back so far, and why we're now ready to get on wit…

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Trusted Assurance Simplified

Trusted Assurance Simplified

Kathleen Moriarty

5 min read

In the third of this series of guest posts, Kathleen Moriarty talks about the importance of posture assessment - the process of evaluating organisation or system security - and looks at solutions for simplifying that process that could help organisations achieve higher levels of trusted assurance.

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Measuring DNS over TLS from the Edge: Adoption, Reliability and Response Times

Measuring DNS over TLS from the Edge: Adoption, Reliability and Response Times

Trinh Viet Doan

9 min read

DNS over TLS (DoT) is an extension to the DNS over UDP/53 (Do53) protocol, which provides additional confidentiality to the DNS messages between client and server. Since its standardisation in RFC7858 in 2016, DoT has gained increasing support by various DNS services as well as operating systems. …

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Trufflehunter: A New Tool to Sniff Out DNS Usage

Trufflehunter: A New Tool to Sniff Out DNS Usage

Audrey Randall

4 min read

Measuring domain usage on centralised public DNS resolvers can be very useful, but it's also pretty hard to do. Trufflehunter is a new open source tool that puts snooping techniques to good use in order to accurately estimate the popularity of domains.

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The PeeringDB Survey 2020 - Results and Roadmap

The PeeringDB Survey 2020 - Results and Roadmap

Leo Vegoda

3 min read

With the results of the PeeringDB survey 2020 gathered and analysed, Leo Vegoda takes a look at how your feedback has helped the team build their roadmap for 2021.

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Where Does Zero Trust Begin and Why is it Important?

Where Does Zero Trust Begin and Why is it Important?

Kathleen Moriarty

11 min read

In the second of a series of guests posts on information security, Kathleen Moriarty of the Center for Internet Security (CIS) takes a close look at the benefits of zero trust architectures and what their increased adoption means for the industry.

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The State of IPv6 Support on the Tor Network

The State of IPv6 Support on the Tor Network

Gaba Rodriguez

3 min read

The team behind the Tor Project has been making good on its goal to provide improved IPv6 support on the Tor network. Here's an update!

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Transforming Information Security to Secure Businesses

Transforming Information Security to Secure Businesses

Kathleen Moriarty

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In the first of a series of guest posts, Kathleen Moriarty of the Center for Internet Security (CIS) examines five vital trends that are guiding the industry toward better information security.

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Tracking RPKI Repository Performance with a RIPE Atlas Measurement Bundle

Tracking RPKI Repository Performance with a RIPE Atlas Measurement Bundle

Emile Aben

6 min read

In this post we introduce a wiki to document RIPE Atlas measurements better. We use the measurements we created to track RPKI Repository Performance to show how this is useful.

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