An update regarding the state of this blog

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In the Internet, each IP Address belongs to an autonomous system (AS). In this blog article, it is demonstrated how any IP address can be mapped to an AS number. The necessary information and sources to map each IP Address to an Autnomous System is provided as well, since they were not easy to find.

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Instead of using one of the many battle proofed and reliable database solutions out there, I rather created my own solution. In this quick blog post, I am announcing the release of db.js - A in-memory database with persistant file storage.

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It is not entirely trivial to find out if an IP address belongs to a datacenter / cloud provider. In this blog article, I try to find an algorithm that outputs with high confidence if an IPv4 / Ipv6 address belongs to a hosting provider or not.

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In this blog post, I highlight the core differences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 and investigate how we can use several properties of the protocol to obtain fingerprinting entropy from TLS clients.

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I in this blog post, I am investigating the current state of high precision JavaScript timers. High precision timing techniques were mostly used to launch CPU-level cache attacks such as Spectre and Meltdown from the browser. I am interested in other use cases though...

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