Fast Track

The UDP-based Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) protocol comes with mandatory TLS encryption and promises faster speeds.

Benjamin Pfister

The Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) protocol [1] originated in 2012 as a Google project led by Jim Roskind to improve security and performance over TCP. The protocol made the leap to four Requests for Comments (RFCs) [2]-[5] under numbers 8999 to 9002 in 2021 after a good five years of development at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In addition to Google, developers from Fastly, Mozilla, and others participated in the development of the transport protocol at the IETF. However, QUIC is not just of academic value, as is shown by the first application protocols on which it is already based. For example, the third version of the Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP/3) uses QUIC. The first drafts of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) successor Real-Time Internet Peering for Telephony…

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ADMIN Network & Security (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2022

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