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Traffic Protocol Analyzer Wireshark Gets its Own Foundation
The popular open-source protocol analyzer Wireshark has a new permanent home in the form of the Wireshark Foundation, which should provide the means for its further, long-term evolution, says Sysdig, which took over as the project's main sponsor in 2022.
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TLS 1.2 Becoming the Minimum TLS Protocol Level on AWS
AWS recently announced that TLS 1.2 is going to become the minimum protocol level for API endpoints. The cloud provider will remove backward compatibility and support for versions 1.0 and 1.1 on all APIs and regions by June 2023.
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GitHub to Phase out Support for Git Protocol, DSA Keys and Legacy SSH Algorithms
With a strong focus on having customer data as secure as possible, GitHub has decided to remove support for the unencrypted Git protocol, DSA keys and some legacy SSH algorithms. Also, it is adding requirements for newly added RSA keys and providing support for ECDSA and Ed25519 host keys SSH. These changes might affect only SSH and git:// users, while the https:// users will be unaffected.
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WhatsApp Adopts the Signal Protocol for Secure Multi-Device Communication
WhatsApp is testing its new architecture aimed to enable true multi-device message synchronization while preserving end-to-end cryptographic security. To this aim, WhatsApp is adopting the Signal protocol.
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AWS Transfer Family Introduces Support for EFS
AWS has recently introduced support for Amazon EFS as a data store in the AWS Transfer Family, the managed service that handles SFTP, FTP and FTPS requests. The new option is intended to simplify the migration to the cloud of file transfer workloads.
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Microsoft Has Open Sourced the VS Code Language Server Protocol
Microsoft has open sourced the protocol used by VS Code’s editor to communicate with the various language servers supported.
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Nest Opens Up Weave
Nest has made available to developers the Weave protocol used to connect various IoT devices.
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Protocol Design and Implementation with Martin Thompson
Martin Thompson answers a few questions about the opportunity for developers and architects to introduce custom protocols to their system's interaction points.
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Google and Microsoft Want to Improve HTTP
Google and Microsoft want to improve HTTP with SPDY and Speed+Mobility. This article reviews both proposals outlining what benefits they bring to the much used Internet protocol.