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Better Mail Security with DANE for SMTP

Better Mail Security with DANE for SMTP

Dennis Baaten

9 min read

In this post we will discuss the risks associated with SMTP and how DANE helps to overcome these, as well as provide you with a list of tips that we at Internet.nl suggest to those looking after mail servers when implementing DANE.

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RIPE NCC Country Report: Germany

RIPE NCC Country Report: Germany

Suzanne Taylor

3 min read

We took an in-depth look at the evolving Internet landscape in Germany as the next in our new series of RIPE NCC Country Reports.

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How Consumer IoT Devices Expose Information

How Consumer IoT Devices Expose Information

Anna Maria Mandalari

11 min read

Do our Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices at home expose private information unexpectedly? Do leaks of sensitive user data depend on the location and jurisdiction of the IoT device? Through a total of 34,586 rigorous automated and manual controlled experiments, we characterised information exposure f…

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Analysing the Costs (and Benefits) of DNS, DoT, and DoH for the Modern Web

Analysing the Costs (and Benefits) of DNS, DoT, and DoH for the Modern Web

Austin Hounsel

7 min read

All Internet communication relies on the Domain Name System (DNS), which maps a human-readable name to an IP address before two endpoints establish a connection to exchange data.

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Mail Filtering - Rethinking Our Reliance on RBLs

Mail Filtering - Rethinking Our Reliance on RBLs

4 min read

Keeping the channels of communication between us and the wider Internet community open has always been one of our main priorities. Just lately we received some input that caused us to rethink the way we've been doing things on this front.

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Your EU Regulation Update: October 2019 Edition

Your EU Regulation Update: October 2019 Edition

Suzanne Taylor

6 min read

This is the third in an ongoing series in which we give a brief overview of the most pertinent digital policies currently being proposed, debated and implemented in the European Union.

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25,000 LIRs - An End to the Milestone Highs?

25,000 LIRs - An End to the Milestone Highs?

Rene Wilhelm

12 min read

Little more than twelve months after we passed the 20,000 active LIRs mark, the number of LIR accounts reached a new milestone on 2 October 2019. As the number of available IPv4 addresses in our pool dropped to 3 million, applications for new LIRs exploded. In July alone, we saw a record number of…

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How to Choose DNS TTL Values

How to Choose DNS TTL Values

Giovane Moura

10 min read

There is no consensus on how to choose DNS time-to-live (TTL) values for domain names. Yet, TTLs are incredibly important, given that they indirectly control how long resolvers cache records, directly influencing user experience.

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How Diverse is RIS?

How Diverse is RIS?

Emile Aben

8 min read

Is the current set of the RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS) peers providing a good level of diverse data? Let's look at some measurement results.

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