QUIC: Google's New Secure UDP-Based Protocol

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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Introducing GTCP

[sl4shd0rk]

I don't know how you expect to keep things in sequence and accommodate dropped packets without implementing a sequencing and transmission protocol. With that in mind, you've just recreated TCP.

What's more likely is Google will create a TCP protocol (you must accept the EULA) which forwards a copy of everyone's session to Google. When you make a request to, say weather.com, Google will then serve you cached results from previous cached sessions to make things faster by eliminating network hops to weather.com. Muhahahahaha...