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Reporting Live From the HOPE2020 Online Conference

Reporting Live From the HOPE2020 Online Conference

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Vesna Manojlovic

21 min read

The thirteenth Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE.net) conference is being held entirely online from 25 July to 2 August 2020.  We are following talks relevant to the RIPE community and reporting back. Join us in participating in real time, or watch archived presentations. 

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Krill Gains Powerful ROA Management Based on BGP Routing

Krill Gains Powerful ROA Management Based on BGP Routing

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Alex Band

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Over the last two years NLnet Labs has been working on free, open source RPKI software and research for the community, supported by the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. We are incredibly excited that six months after the first release of Krill it already powers delegated RPKI for over 150 organisa…

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Journeying into XDP: Part 0

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Luuk Hendriks

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Network programming using XDP has been on our radar (and if you are reading this, possibly on yours too!) for a while now. As tooling around this technology has vastly improved, we decided that it was time to finally get our hands dirty and see what this technology is all about.

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Help to Understand Secure Email Around the Globe

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Mirjam Kühne

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Olamide Omolola and Tobias Fiebig are studying the degree to which email systems are configured securely. And they need your help: they want to receive emails from as many different mail providers around the world as possible.

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Route Flap Damping in the Wild?!

Route Flap Damping in the Wild?!

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Clemens Mosig

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BGP Route Flap Damping (RFD) and its use has been a controversial topic in the past. Recommendations have been revised multiple times over the past two decades and still differ from vendor default values. In this article we dive into how we measured Route Flap Damping in the real-world, uncover whi…

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What Can the DNS Tell Us About the Effect of Working From Home on the Internet?

What Can the DNS Tell Us About the Effect of Working From Home on the Internet?

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João Luis Silva Damas

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Looking at the DNS, it appears that working from home is largely over for most parts of the world.

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Managing the Trust Anchor of the DNS against Adversity

Managing the Trust Anchor of the DNS against Adversity

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Mirjam Kühne

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Kim Davies, President of PTI and Vice President of IANA Services for ICANN describes recent and new challenges when managing the DNS trust anchor.

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IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics

IPv6 Adoption Statistics: a Comparison of Different Metrics

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Rene Wilhelm

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Following up on earlier research, we're looking at IPv6 adoption statistics provided by various organisations once again. How far do they match, and if not, why not?

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NXNSAttack: Upgrade Resolvers to Stop New Kind of Random Subdomain Attack

NXNSAttack: Upgrade Resolvers to Stop New Kind of Random Subdomain Attack

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This article describes a newly discovered DNS protocol vulnerability that affects most recursive DNS resolvers. NXNSAttack allows the execution of random subdomain attacks using the DNS delegation mechanism, resulting in a big packet amplification factor.

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