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Research Projects You Should Know About
Anonymous Coward writes "Here is a look at 10 current IT and network research projects, from active cookies to faster wireless LANs to the latest anti-phishing schemes, that could be making their way out of labs and into companies and homes soon." Still no virtual sandwich I see.
...not really bandwidth, but storage.
I've been lucky to head to a couple of optics conferences, and with the keynote presentations that has been the one surprising thing (to me as a layman) that comes up time after time.
10Gbps throughput via optics is great; in fact, with the use of optics, the amount of data that can be collected for, say, scanning living tissue, is enormous. Finding a storage mechanism large enough and fast enough to store seemingly infinite amount of information, though, have been the researchers' concern.
What did they think was a solution for this? You guessed it, optical storage.
http://www.ravenwhite.com/files/activecookies--28_ Apr_06.pdf
From what I've gathered, basically, they seek to stop the threat of DNS poisoning and passive-snooping man-in-the-middle impersonation of a users' session by tagging cookies in the client's browser with an IP address rather than a domain name, then redirecting users from the DNS-resolved websites to that same IP (only to send their cookies), and ensuring (on the machine pointed to by that IP) that the IP address of the connection which was sent the redirection and the IP address that is now sending back the cookie to match up.
This does seem like quite a bit of work to go through to stop what are probably relatively uncommon attacks though.
"'Yrch!' said Legolas, falling into his own tongue."
title says it all. yet another web presentation optimized for ad presentation.
yuk.
Don't forget they don't have to knock now ..
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