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Looking at the Google QUIC protocol

Looking at the Google QUIC protocol

- The Quick UDP Internet Connection was introduced in 2014 by Google to provide reliable HTTP stream transport, and is being standardized by the IATF. It effectively replaces the traditional TCP/TLS Secure Web Communications. Google now includes QUIC, and its Chrome and Android products and the patchy service support is progressing. QUIC is with the IATF for standardization. QUIC is a new UDP-based protocol that is low latency and incurs less congestion then TCP while retaining security equivalent to TCP/TLS. It's incorporated encryption on both HTTP and HTTPS. As UDP is not session oriented, QUIC introduces a connection identifier, or CID, to provide session knowledge, and adds packet sequence numbers to allow correctly sequenced message reconstruction. Establishing a QUIC session is extremely fast when compared to TCP/TLS. TCP starts with a three-way handshake to establish the connection. TLS then requires a further…

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