mcharawi

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   by mcharawi 5y ago

   So congestion and packet loss are different problems; it is true that forward error correction could be a good way to avoid retransmitting lost packets, but the only way to avoid congestion is to adjust the congestion window (for window bas
2. 32.▲
   by mcharawi 5y ago

   The canonical UDT implementation does not come with encryption, however there are some older open source GitHub repos that have attempted to add TLS to UDT. The original author of UDT, Yunhong Gu, has a project called Sector/Sphere tha
3. 33.▲
   by mcharawi 5y ago

   Thanks for reading! I haven't seen hpn-ssh before, but from a cursory look at the project page it looks like the main improvements are targeted at improving the speed of the encryption using multi-threading, and increasing ssh/scp
4. 34.▲
   by mcharawi 5y ago

   Thanks for taking the time to read it! To address your concerns: 1. To give you an idea of the speed improvements, we transferred a 2GB file between Ohio and Singapore on AWS and were able to transfer it in 0:26 (seconds) using our protocol
5. 35.▲
   by mcharawi 5y ago

   Thanks for the feedback-we're actually planning to open-source a version of our work that significantly improves on the original UDT project: https://udt.sourceforge.io/ .
6. 36.▲
   by mcharawi 5y ago

   Sorry about the typo-you are right it should be Gbps. As for the transfer time, we are just using bits for the file size to make the mental math easier.
7. 37.▲
   by mcharawi 5y ago

   Standard SSH uses TCP over port 22 by default, so it wouldn't be possible without modifying SSH to use a different protocol. That being said, however, our protocol uses TLS over UDP via the OpenSSL libraries so it is secure by default.
8. 38.▲
   by mcharawi 5y ago

   Hey HN! I'm Mahamad, co-founder of Tachyon Transfer, where we're building faster file transfer tools for developers. We've spent the last year building an ultra-fast FTP replacement, and we thought we'd show you guys wha
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   How we built a new, fast file transfer protocol(trytachyon.com)

   90 points by mcharawi 5y ago|63 comments
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    Ask HN: Alternative to Twilio STUN/TURN?

    5 points by mcharawi 6y ago|0 comments
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    ProtonDrive Sneak Peek(youtube.com)

    2 points by mcharawi 6y ago|0 comments
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    Estimating U.S. arsenal of zero-day vulnerabilities (2016)(jia.sipa.columbia.edu)

    1 points by mcharawi 7y ago|0 comments