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."

Comments

Don't trust 'em

[hairyfeet]

Frankly after all the NSA spying and how quick these companies were willing to jump on board? I have serious doubts in ANY new network tech not having backdoors of some sort. Maybe after some independent devs have taken the code apart and checked it with a fine tooth comb I'll trust it but as of this moment I honestly don't trust ANY of the major players to have our interests at heart.

As the old saying goes treat everything as suspect, then if it turns out its not you are pleasantly surprised and if it turns out you are right you aren't blindsided. Kinda sad that we all have to be this cynical but that is one of the nice things about the net, they can't hide their bullshit as easily as they could in the past.

Not the issue

[chris200x9]

"The chinaman [protocol] is not the issue here, Dude." If google gives up data to the NSA who gives a shit about the encryption involved in transporting that data to a google server? That's like saying "I'm using bittorrent to seed copyrighted info to a MPAA spy but I'm using full stream encryption, they'll never catch me TROLOLOLOLOL"

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...