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Tentative annotations for IMAP

14-Jun-08

Experimental RFC 5257, by Cyrus Daboo of Apple, and Randall Gellens of Qualcomm, defines the ANNOTATE extension to IMAP, a protocol widely used for handling email messages.

Proposed cure for “fast flux”: throw away DNS resource records

22-May-08

“Fast flux” refers to the practice of hosting malicious services on a large number of compromised computers, while using highly dynamic DNS resource records to direct traffic between those “bot net drones”.
In order to combat “fast flux”, the new Internet Draft document “Double Flux Defense in the DNS Protocol”, by John Bambenek of the University [...]