Internet Engineering Taskforce News Today

Novel Terrapin attack uses prefix truncation to downgrade the security of SSH channels.

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is to widen its focus from setting the technical standards that allow IT systems to interoperate, to work on standards for sharing the research data held in these systems globally over the next five years, amid geopolitical tensions that are disrupting open science cooperation with China, Russia and other parts of the world.

Nato’s Cyber Security Centre has successfully tested secure communication flows in a post-quantum world using a UK-designed VPN.

By November 2022, approximately 95% of internet traffic could be encrypted and QUIC will be almost 47% of global internet traffic.

India IGF is being held in the second week of November, under the aegis of the UN IGF. The platform has been host to fierce digital geopolitics that has protected the freedom of the Internet and has defined how we use it for our work and life. India IGF will contribute significantly to internet governance.

We should consign the term "REST" to history. In its place we should adopt the terms "HTTP API" and "hypermedia API".