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QUIC: Google's New Secure UDP-Based Protocol

Posted by Soulskill on from the set-for-a-twelve-year-beta-test dept.

New submitter jshurst1 writes "Google has announced QUIC, a stream multiplexing protocol running over a new variation of TLS, as well as UDP. The new protocol offers connectivity with a reduced number of round trips, strong security, and pluggable congestion control. QUIC is in experiment now for Chrome dev and canary users connecting to Google websites."

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  1. Fed up with google "standards" by neutrino38 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Here we are again.

    After VP8, protocol buffer, Google is a it again providing some free replacement of some existing standard (DTLS here http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4347.txt)

    But of course, Google's people know better and have more money. And the list can go on. Dart as a replacement of javascript. Protocol buffer as replacement of ASN.1, SPDY to replace HTTP. With Jingle google tried to replace SIP protocol as well but at least the extended an existing standard but they dropped the support when stopping Google talk. For couse everyting is free, open source and Not Evil. So why bother?

    Well as an aging network engineer, I am starting to be fed up with such "innovations". More consensus building would be refreshing.