November 8th & 9th, 2024
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A QUIC History of HTTP

SeaGL 2019

HTTP, first defined in 1991, has undergone radical change since it was created by Tim Berners-Lee in the days of dialup. We’ll cover the notable problems and improvements from 0.9 up to the proposed HTTP/3 which sheds TCP entirely and implements a secure and highly performant TLS-over-UDP protocol known as QUIC.

No prior knowledge of HTTP or networking is required, but even those comfortable writing web requests at the command line will learn a thing or two.

Presenters

Bri Hatch

Bri Hatch, ExtraHop Networks

Bri Hatch is Director of IT at ExtraHop Networks, and Chief Hacker at Onsight, Inc. An adamant Open Source advocate and security buff, Bri is the author of Hacking Linux Exposed, Building Linux VPNs, and numerous online articles on the topics of Linux, security, and coding. He has been securing and breaking into systems since before he traded in his Apple II+ for his first Unix system.

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