Jun 8, 2021

Decoding TLS 1.3 handshake with wireshark

Follow these steps to decode encrypted handshake messages using wireshark. I used a chrome browser on my mac for this Open ‘Terminal’ on you mac and setup the environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE export SSLKEYLOGFILE=”/Users/<account_name>/keyfile” 2. Open wireshark on your mac and start capture (use the latest version of wireshark —…

Wireshark

1 min read

Decoding TLS 1.3 handshake with wireshark

Follow these steps to decode encrypted handshake messages using wireshark. I used a chrome browser on my mac for this

Open ‘Terminal’ on you mac and setup the environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE

export SSLKEYLOGFILE=”/Users/<account_name>/keyfile”

2. Open wireshark on your mac and start capture (use the latest version of wireshark —…

Jun 7, 2021

QUIC transport

The future of transport layer protocols This is the third and final part of this series on transport layer protocols. Here we will talk of the future of transport layer protocols and how QUIC (initially proposed as an acronym for Quick UDP Internet Connections) is fast disrupting the world web transport heavyweight — TCP. …

Quic

12 min read

May 18, 2021

Transport Layer Security

This is a follow-up to my TCP blog. Part 2 of this series on transport layer Security Security at the transport layer is paramount and most internet traffic today is secured by a newer version of the erstwhile SSL (secure socket layer) protocol. SSL has evolved over time to become TLS…

Tls Connection

14 min read

May 11, 2021

TCP: Exonerate your network

TCP: Exonerate your network Part 1 of the series on Transport Layer. This blog discusses the basics of TCP and how network operators can help themselves and their customers exonerate their network or point out its limitations Introduction This article is meant for network engineers and operators who wish to…

Tcp Ip

19 min read