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A pre-funding project I am working will achieve DDoS resilience without gatekeepers like Cloudflare, if I am able to bring it to market. It turns out that ther
by DanielDent 10y ago
A pre-funding project I am working will achieve DDoS resilience without gatekeepers like Cloudflare, if I am able to bring it to market.
It turns out that there's actually a ton of academic research on a number of very promising techniques, in addition to the approaches I'm hoping to develop.
I see the issue more as UI/UX/ease of use/cost of adoption. Right now a lot of approaches you could probably defend a Ph.D. on the topic. They need to instead become approaches developers choose because it's the easiest and most cost-effective way to deliver a high-quality service.
- corobo 10y agoHow does it work?
- DanielDent 10y agoThere's a lot of different technologies and ideas that need to come together in an easy to use way. Three of the most important: * Blockchains * Protocol-level anti-DDoS changes (protocols specifically designed to make them less suitable for use in in DoS) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_centric_networking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_centric_networking
- gwright 10y agoI think content centric networking is very interesting, but my original comment was in the context of TCP/IP as it exists today. My gut says that real solutions to DDOS problems are going to have to come from new approaches to networking in general and not just tweaks to TCP/IP or throwing massive amounts of infrastructure at the problem.
- DanielDent 10y agoI think we fundamentally agree. But I would point out a subtle distinction: I believe TCP/IP and DNS provide an adequate building block for what needs to happen in a backwards-compatible progressive enhancement way. I distinguish this from IPv6 which - because of how we chose to implement it - has created a ton of chicken-egg issues with the incentives for adoption.