Security Boulevard

PQC-Hardened Model Context Protocol Transport Layers

Learn how to secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) transport layers using post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to defend against future quantum computing threats.
EDN

Guide to Embedded Systems Architecture – Part 3: Transport layer (UDP) and embedded Java and networking middleware examples

The two most common transport layer protocols are the transmission control protocol (TCP) and the user datagram protocol (UDP). One of the main differences between the two protocols is reliability.
EDN

Practical Embedded Security – Part 2: Transport and Internet Layer Protocols

Part 1 of this article looks at low-level communications protocols, including PPP and Ethernet, and their specific security features and requirements.] Now that we have discussed the lower-level ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Post-Quantum Computing Threatens Fundamental Transport Protocols

The Transport Level Security (TLS) protocol is one of the few rock-steady spots in the rapidly changing computing industry, but that’s about to change as quantum computers threaten traditional ...
Bleeping Computer

NSA shares guidance, tools to mitigate weak encryption protocols

The National Security Agency (NSA) has shared guidance on how to detect and replace outdated Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol versions with up to date and secure variants. The US intelligence ...
Science Daily

Staying in shape: How the Internet architecture got its hourglass shape and what that means for future Internet architectures

A new computer model that describes the evolution of the Internet's architecture suggests that a process similar to natural evolution took place to determine which protocols survived and which ones ...
Computerworld

The Transport Layer: Understanding layer 4 of the OSI Model

I like to think of the transport layer as the layer of the OSI Model that enables more interesting traffic. While we network engineers may love a lot of the simpler uses of the IP protocol and ...