I recently came across the issue of latency differences between HTTP and HTTPS. It got me curious and I started looking into it. To give a quick introduction to those who are new to this, HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and it's a protocol for communication over the internet. Whenever somebody types something into … Continue reading HTTP vs HTTPS: Latency Comparison
Tag: Networks
Why Would We Ever Use Blind Search?
Over the last few decades, we have seen a lot of technologies come by and make a significant impact. Most of these technologies, if you have noticed, revolve around intelligent actions. Let's say you are in the middle of a street and you want a cab. We can solve this problem in a couple of … Continue reading Why Would We Ever Use Blind Search?
DNS Cache Poisoning
Internet entities are regularly affected by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) of various scales. This is basically a way to hack into an entity and stop it from working. Hackers use it all the time to bring down famous sites. They tend to attack the domain name system (DNS), since it allows to infiltrate heavily. … Continue reading DNS Cache Poisoning
Content Delivery Network – Part 2/2
In the previous post, we discussed about content delivery network (CDN) and why we need it. This post is a continuation of that topic. Here, we will discuss about the pros and cons of using CDN. CDN obviously helps the sites that experience heavy traffic. Most of the times, you will think that just using … Continue reading Content Delivery Network – Part 2/2
Content Delivery Network – Part 1/2
Internet users today are demanding faster and higher-quality services from their media hosting companies. Being an internet user yourself, you should know that we place a high demand on these services. This is the reason quick access and delivery of rich-media like music, photos, videos etc has become a top priority. Wait a minute, why … Continue reading Content Delivery Network – Part 1/2
Onion Routing
I was recently reading some literature about data encryption and I stumbled across an interesting concept. The classic secure communication model is the one where the sender encrypts the message and sends it across the network, which is then decrypted at the receiver's end. In real life, this is done over several networks and several … Continue reading Onion Routing
Perpetual Enigma 