NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Sun Jan 3 21:41:27 UTC 2021
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brandon Martin" <lists.nanog at monmotha.net>
> The nice thing is that such emergency alerts don't require
> confidentiality and can relatively easily bear in-band,
> application-level authentication (in fact, that seems preferable to only
> using session-level authentication). That means you could easily carry
> them over plain HTTP or similar which removes the TLS overhead you mention.
Sure. Just signing the alert packet so it can be authenticated is plenty.
> Several GB of RAM is nothing for a modern server, of course. It sounds
> like you'd probably run into other scaling issues before you hit memory
> limitations needed to juggle legitimate TCP connection state.
Well, yeah, but I don't know that it's *just* RAM; I suspect it might be
data structure as well...
Cheers,
-- jra
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