{"id":2654,"date":"2019-08-08T07:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2019-08-08T07:17:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T11:17:17","slug":"dtls-security-for-udp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2019\/08\/08\/dtls-security-for-udp\/","title":{"rendered":"DTLS &#8211; Security for UDP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> I had a short conversation yesterday about securing UDP data. When I dug around  little it became clear that there is an existing, RFC documented protocol for handling that. I haven&#8217;t yet read the specification (though I likely will as it is an interesting technology).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Datagram_Transport_Layer_Security\">wikipedia <\/a>description here and the primary RFC is <a href=\"https:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc6347\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being able to secure unsequenced and unreliable datagram traffic using a design that is reasonably well vetted seems extremely useful. There are places where UDP is uniquely useful and security is becoming a much larger issue in the market today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting looking sample code <a href=\"https:\/\/chris-wood.github.io\/2016\/05\/06\/OpenSSL-DTLS.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a short conversation yesterday about securing UDP data. When I dug around little it became clear that there is an existing, RFC documented protocol for handling that. I haven&#8217;t yet read the specification (though I likely will as it is an interesting technology). There is a wikipedia description here and the primary RFC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2019\/08\/08\/dtls-security-for-udp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DTLS &#8211; Security for UDP<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-blog","category-ideas","category-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-GO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2656,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}