Random technical bits and thoughts

5G Security Takeaways from various industry white papers (Mainly from Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei) Current 4G(LTE) Security: Encrypti...

https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/summit-videos/presentation/beyond-the-horizon-innovating-and-customizing-horizon-using-angu...

Following blogpost and paper talk one possible method NSA would have used to read IPsec and SSL encrypted data. https://freedom-to-tinker...

See this link: http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2003-2004/cryptography/diffiehellman/diffiehellman.html Pasting relevant text here: ...

Definition is taken from wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MPX ) : " Intel MPX  ( Memory Protection Extensions ) is ...

DPDK based OVS acceleration improves the performance many folds up to 17x times over native OVS.   Please see the link here :   https://dow...

I was just thinking about this and searched in Internet and I found that this is already implemented and part of OVS.  Please see the serie...

Hi, OPNFV DPACC team is trying to standardize the flow API, that would be called from VNFs to talk to flow processing modules in VMM or s...

Check this link :  http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2015/10/21/vmware-plunges-16-business-eaten-alive-by-the-public-cloud-says-str...

Please see this post in techtarget -   http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/tip/What-does-microservice-architecture-mean-for-the-cloud?utm_med...

OPNFV DPACC working group is trying to standardize the accelerator interface for vNFs to accelerate the workloads. Accelerator standardiz...

https://github.com/Open-SFC - Even though Open-SFC project is for "Service Function Chaining", there is one feature called ...

Some good information/links on HSM and related technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module Safenet Luna, which...

With increasing migration to the public clouds,  it appears that 70% of all Enterprise workloads would run in the public clouds.  90% of t...

This link (Presentation by AWS Distinguished Engineer)   http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/11/14/rare-peek-massive-scale-aws/  provides in...

SRIOV functionality  in PCIe devices is introduced to solve a problem of sharing a physical device across multiple virtual machines in a ph...

I attended ONS yesterday.  This is the 1st time, I see many OF hardware switch vendors (either based on NPUs,  FPGAs or ASICs) advertising ...

OVS, part of Linux distributions, is openflow based software switch implementation.  OVS has two components - User space component and ker...

Are you evaluating robustness of a SDN solution?  There are few tests, I believe one should run to ensure that SDN solution is robust.  Sin...

Introduction ONF is making Openflow specification as one of the standards enabling non-proprietary communication between central control...