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2024
Our Security Model for Web-Based Communication is now published as Research Highlight in CACM
"A Review of Techniques for Ageing Detection and Monitoring on Embedded Systems" has been published in ACM Computing Surveys
"The Log4j Incident: A Comprehensive Measurement Study of a Critical Vulnerability", our extended study of the Log4shell attacks since Dec. 2021, has been published in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management .
Our measurement studies on the QUIC handshake and the DDoS Landscape have been accepted at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference
Peter Kietzmann successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "On Information-centric Resiliency and System-level Security in Constrained, Wireless Communication"
This year's Traffic Measurement and Analysis conference (TMA) was held at TU Dresden
Internet Edge of Doubled Intelligence: Use Energy Where it's Produced
Our work on efficient Delta Time Encoding for Content-Centric Networking turned into an RFC.
Network Anomaly Detection in Cars: A Case for Time-Sensitive Stream Filtering and Policing
2023
HAW-INET erhält eine halbe Million Euro vom BMBF für die zivile Sicherheitsforschung mit IoT-Technologien
Rethinking LoRa for the IoT: An Information-centric Approach
Securing Name Resolution in the IoT: DNS over CoAP
The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI): A Survey on Measurements and Future Prospects - now prepublished in IEEE Transactions on Network and Security Management
PUF for the Commons: Enhancing Embedded Security on the OS Level - now prepublished in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
DNS over CoAP is our proposal to secure name resolution for the IoT - currently in standardization
Our papers on IoT networking with RIOT propose new ways to Internet communication via BLE and LoRa
Untersuchung der Eignung des LoRa Übertragungsverfahrens für Sicherheitskritische Drahtlose Anwendungen im Flugzeug.
2022
Our paper "On the Interplay between TLS Certificates and QUIC Performance" was awarded twice at CoNEXT'22
Spoki: Unveiling a New Wave of Scanners through a Reactive Network Telescope
Our paper analyzes the impact of TLS certificates on QUIC handshakes and reveals severe flaws
Cenk has successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "Information-centric Networking for the Constrained Internet of Things"
Our work on ScaleClock, an adaptive clock scaling for energy minimization of embedded devices, and on a new crypto subsystem for RIOT were both accepted as full papers at the EWSN 2022
Our comprehensive forensic analysis of the threatening Log4j shell incident will appear at TMA '22
One full paper and one poster introduce new security solutions for the IoT at ACM/IEEE IPSN
We present a DSME MAC layer for LoRa on RIOT and develop an information-centric networking system on top.
2021
Transparent DNS forwarders are a new threat to the Internet infrastructure. We measure their existence continuously.
HoP and Pull is a mobility-agnostic information-centric approach to publish-subscribe for the IoT
The reactive network telescope discovered a new scanning and attack ecosystem
All details about the new ECO Box - a hardware-software co-design for energy-autonomous sensing - are now part of the new project website.
Scalable, reliable firmware updates with DoS resistance for the Information-centric Internet of Things
Berliner Wissenschaftsnetz Brain: Glasfaser mit Hemmschuh
2020
Student project @HAW_Hamburg explores autonomous Bit-Lifting with self-controlled balloons.
Our paper "On the Impact of QoS Management in an Information-centric Internet of Things" has been accepted by Computer Communications
Our work on the emerging subject of Content Object Security Protocols has been accepted at the IFIP Networking Conference.
On Thursday, May 7th 15:30, Marcin presents a Web talk on blackholing DDoS.
The C++ Actor Framework introduces a new type ID API, which is the basis for major performance improvements in the upcoming 0.18 version.
The paper "Network Anomaly Detection in Cars based on Time-Sensitive Ingress Control" develops security measures for connected cars based on scheduling information of time-sensitive traffic.
Our paper on content object security in the Internet of Things was selected best
We will present two papers at the 7th ACM Conference on Information Centric Networking (ICN'20)
The ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2020 has selected our two papers for presentation
Two papers and two posters at ACM-ICN2020 present online
Our paper "Designing a LoWPAN convergence layer for the Information Centric Internet of Things" has been published by Computer Communications
Two papers at ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2020 presented online
Our research proposal "SUSTAIN: Self-Sustainable Urban Sensing by Autonomous RIOT Networks" got accepted for the new Hamburg Graduate School for Data-Driven Participatory Smart Cities
The paper "A Performance Study of Crypto-Hardware in the Low-end IoT" analyses the performance of hardware-assisted crypto-processing in the low-end IoT
2019
We presented one full paper, a reproducibility study, and four posters at the Internet Measurement Conference in Amsterdam
Demos on Information Centric Bluetooth LE and QoS-supported Desaster Management in the Information Centric IoT Presented at ACM ICN
Design and evaluation of the ECO Box was accepted for presentation at the ACM SenSys Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSsys) this fall in New York.
Spoofing detection using an active Internet telescope is a new approach to measuring security threats of the Internet infrastructure
Cenk and Peter receive funds from ACM to present papers and demos at the ACM conference on Information Centric Networking 2019 in Macau
PHiLIP enables RIOT testing with reference hardware in the loop
Our works on Quality of Service, Bluetooth Mesh, and DNSSec Name Binding have been accepted for presentation at the ACM conference on Information Centric Networking in Hongkong
Joined work with FU-Berlin and DE-CIX analyzed DDoS Countermeasures at Internet Exchange Points - now accepted at the Internet Measurement Conference.
Smart citizens and ahoi.digital team discuss smart Hamburg options with smart industry and smart politics.
EU large-scale deployment project for smarter, safer cities and wearables assembles in Hamburg
Michel presents energy-autonomous RIOT node at the NetSys Conference in Munich
2018
Our open-source library RTRlib implements the RPKI/RTR protocol. The RTRlib is the backend for BGP daemons and monitoring tools to increase Internet routing security. It is now part of the official Debian package repository.
Our Demonstrator of an Resilient Industrial IoT was awarded Best Demo at the IEEE 43rd Local Computer Networks conference
Our HoPP Demonstrator was awarded best at the ACM Conference on Information Centric Networking
Many visitors had a lot of fun with RIOT at the Day of Science in Harburg
Our paper on a new, configurable network layer was accepted at the AGERE!@SPLASH
Future Industrial Communication: iNET-Project I3 delivers talk and demo at BMBF 5G Summit in Berlin
Programming with Actors - State-of-the-Art and Research Perspectives appeared as Springer LNCS
Cenk was awarded a travel grant for his upcoming presentation at the ACM ICN conference in Boston
X-Check Student Marcin Nawrocki was awarded 2nd price in the ACM SIGCOMM Student Research Competition
X-Check PhD student Andreas Reuter presents "Towards a Rigorous Methodology for Measuring Adoption of RPKI Route Validation and Filtering"
Our work on Certificate Transparency was accepted at the Internet Measurement Conference.
Our demonstration of "Producer Mobility for the Industrial Information-Centric Internet" has been selected as best - congratulation to Cenk & Peter
We are presenting RIOT at the ACM IoT Day in Munich. Vint Cerf gives the keynote at this event.
2017
Study on measuring and analyzing the impact of Internet core security technologies accepted for publication in ACM SIGComm's prime journal.
SANE - our joint research proposal with UniHH about "Smart Networks for Urban Citizen Participation" has been accepted as one of four flagship projects of the City of Hamburg within the ahoi.digital strategy.
Dirk Kutscher publishes a nice summary on last week's series of events.
Papers will appear at the ACM SIGPlan SPlash '17, WS AGERE!, and in an upcoming collection on the state-of-the-art of Actor programming.
At the upcoming 4th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2017), we have been accepted to present two papers on communication technologies - for the IoT and for all nodes
Our demo about Distributed Threat Intelligence has been accepted at SIGCOMM'17
It was about time: the initial release (v0.1) of the RTRlib Python binding finally went public!
Andreas presents newest insights on how to measure cyber security. This talk was presented to 600 Internet operators at the RIPE 74 plenary meeting.
RFC 8076 on a Usage for Shared Resources in RELOAD (ShaRe) has been published.
We are co-organizing the 16. GI / ITG KuVS Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium - FGSN 2017.
Dominik, our chief designer of the C++ Actor Framework (CAF), spends this month in Berkeley - four weeks full of research exchange and collaboration.
Ferchau Engineering awarded 1.000 € to Informatik Masters in TT class for best implementations of IoT game
2016
We are co-organizing the GI-Seminar "IoT Hackathon: From Research to Practice" - introducing live hacking to Dagstuhl
Oliver Hahm from the core RIOT design team successfully defended his PhD today. He is now a Dr. of the renown École Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay.
We will Co-chair the ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking 2017 in Berlin
We have received the best poster award at the ACM/SIGCOMM Conference on Information Centric Networking - ICN 2016
MONICA, our EU Proposal "Management Of Networked IoT Wearables – Very Large Scale Demonstration of Cultural Societal Applications" jointly submitted with Hamburg's Senate Chancellery has been accepted.
The present c't computer magazine (17/2016) reports about the RIOT success story.
HarVEst - the Hamburg Cyber Security Research Alliance is to be established with Estonia.
Our work on "Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Research Challenges" has been published as RFC 7927.
This is the final pre-release for 0.15, final release is scheduled for end of August.
Information-Centric Networking for the Industrial Internet (I3) is the newest research project of the INET group: The German Ministry of Research and Education issued a grant of 0.6 Mio. Euros to the INET research team.
Our seminar proposal "The Critical Internet Infrastructure Revisited" has been approved by Schloß Dagstuhl, the German Leibniz Center for Informatics.
This release is the result of 8 months of development and 374 commits.
X-Check addresses security concerns at Internet eXchange points - HAW receives half a million Euros in funds by the German BMBF.
The friendly OS for the IoT got a lot of new features, a bunch of additional protocols and a new and blazing fast RIOT CI is now available. Additionally, support for a number of new boards and sensors was added. Last but not least many bug fixes, mostly about stabilizing and enhancing the networking capabilities of RIOT were included.
Our Paper "Let's Collect Names: How PANINI Limits FIB Tables in Name Based Routing" has been accepted at this year's Networking conference in Vienna
2015
In our second spotlight, we talk to the core development team behind Bro, the popular open source network analysis framework. Starting with version 2.4, Bro includes a new (currently in beta) communication layer based on CAF called Broker. This new layer uses the network abstractions provided by CAF to provide a uniform API to communication in the Bro ecosystem.
Our Berlin Affiliate Matthias Wählisch won the competition "Forum Junge Spitzenforscher" with RIOT - and received a 10.000 € award.
Till Steinbach et al. "Beware of the Hidden" awarded best paper at this year 40th anniversary IEEE LCN conference.
The friendly OS for the IoT got a lot of new features, including a new network stack, better timer subsystem to support more precise timer operations, and better hardware abstraction.
CAF is making its way into Bro as foundation for Broker: Bro's new communication library
9th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies @ USENIX Security Symposium 2015
Hacking Health Berlin invited watr.li to represent vertical farming and IoT approaches to gardening at the Bayer Digital Summit 2015 in Düsseldorf.
The Internet of Plants, a project by our master students Lotte Steenbrink and Lucas Jenß, won third price at the international Eclipse Open IoT Challenge in Grenoble
This release adds IPv6 support, improves performance, and makes the pattern matching implementation more debugger friendly.
The RIOT open source project is funded in the 2015 Google Summer of Code. Application opens March 16th.
RIOT, the friendly operating system for the IoT, is on display at the Embedded World in Nürmberg
The Snappy Ubuntu Core partner ecosystem launched with 21 partners. In this ecosystem for the IoT, RIOT represents the micro-controller operating system to support very constrained devices.
We released a new version of the RTRlib, an open-source C implementation of the RPKI/Router Protocol client.
2014
Congratulations to Lotte! Her implementation of AODVv2 has been merged into RIOT, the friendly operating system for the IoT.
RFC 7411 "Multicast Listener Extensions for Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) and Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Fast Handovers" just published
The core components mainly received optimizations and bugfixes. However, CAF now includes the first alpha versions of a runtime inspection & debugging toolkit.
C++ Actor Framework in Network Forensics: CAF and VAST (UC Berkeley) received much attention at SIGCOMM 2014 in Chicago
RIOT attracted much attention from the IETF Community in Toronto at the Bits-n-Bytes
CAF has been previously known as libcppa. This release features a new network backend, a cleaned-up API and various improvements.
RFC 7287 is an experimental RFC about "Mobile Multicast Sender Support in Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Domains"
Our joint work with UC Berkeley and ICSI on the scalable network forensics system VAST has been accepted as demo at SIGCOMM 2014 in Chicago
Version 0.9.3 of libcppa has just been released ... under the Boost Software License. Since the use of LGPL-licensed code is prohibited in many companies, we have decided to re-release libcppa under a license that causes less headache in legal departments.
Internet-Technologe Raphael Hiesgen erhält Univention-Absolventenpreis auf dem LinuxTag für OpenSource Software
Version 0.9 of libcppa is a redesign of many components of our actor system and features an all-new work-stealing scheduler to achieve better performance.
On May 8th, Raphael will receive the 7. Univention Graduation Award for relevant Open Source contributions to the community
Benjamin Cabé, Evangelist at the Eclipse Foundation, is talking about RIOT during the first Open IoT hangout.
We are co-organizing The 6th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-peer computing and Online Social neTworking (HotPOST), which is held in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS, and the 39th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). Please, consider the CfPs.
2013
After four years of continuous activity, our work on "A Common API for Transparent Hybrid Multicast" has been published as RFC 7046.
We promoted HAW students to attend 87th IETF meeting in Berlin. According to the Internet Society (ISOC) this was a big success.
Our Master Students Christian Vogt and Max Jonas Werner Received the Best Demo Award at the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2013)
RPKI RTRlib, an open source implementation of the RPKI router part developed at our group, made it to Heise News. A week later, this work was presented at USENIX Security in Washington DC.
We are pleased to announce three contributions to Information-centric Networking that have recently been accepted for publication
A Firefox Add-on is online that verifies the IP prefix of the requested web server.
Our paper "A Temporally Scalable Video Codec and its Applications to a Video Conferencing System with Dynamic Network Adaption for Mobiles" published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics was awarded the first place 2012 Annual IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Chester Sall Memorial Award
Sebastian received a SIGAPP Student Travel Award to attend the ACM SAC'13
2012
Sebastian Meiling and Till Steinbach won Student Poster Award of the IEEE PES ISGT'12.
Dominik Charousset, Tacio Santos and Matthias Wählisch received an ACM CoNEXT student travel grant.
We are involved in the co-organization of the 6th international OMNeT++ Workshop to be held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2013 .
Sebastian Meiling receives a Student Participation Grant to attend the 37th IEEE LCN 2012.
Version 0.3 provides an improved build process, synchronous messaging and lots of smaller improvements.
Version 0.2 of libcppa is the first official beta release and ships with a user manual including lots of code examples.
We will present 3 posters and 1 demo at ACM SIGCOMM 2012 - the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication.
PhD research position on Crowd Monitoring to enhance security in public spaces - full time E13 TVL in Hamburg
Matthias Wählisch receives a student travel grant for the 13th Passive and Active Measurement conference (PAM) and the COST Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA) workshop. PAM is one of the two top measurement conferences.
The iNET RG gladly announces a new open source software: The library libcppa adds support of the actor model to C++
NoAE's Innovation Award in the Category of "Communcation & Mobility" goes to the the Group Communication over Real-time Ethernet (CoRE) for the Design of an Intelligent Car Backbone.
PhD research position on security monitoring of the Internet backbone - full time E13 TVL in Hamburg
The Core & INET RGs announce a new open source software: TTE4INET - The TTEthernet Model for the OMNeT++/INET Simulation Framework
The iNET RG gladly announces a new open source software: mcproxy - a Multicast Proxy for IGMP/MLD
2011
We are happy to announce version 0.2 of the RTRlib, a C implementation of the RPKI/Router Protocol client.
The prestigious Hermann-Appel-Award in the category "Electronic Development" goes to Till Steinbach for his diploma thesis "Echtzeit-Ethernet für Anwendungen im Automobil: Metriken und deren simulationsbasierte Evaluierung am Beispiel von TTEthernet".
We are involved in the co-organization of three scientific events: OMNeT++'12, LCN'12, HotPOST'12. Please consider the corresponding call for papers.
We released the first public, open-source reference implementation of the RPKI/RTR router end.
INET is seeking for researchers on SmartGrid in the Internet of Things für den Bereich SmartGrid im Internet of Things Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit mit Promotionsmöglichkeit - E13 (TV-L) Vollzeit für 3 Jahre - hochskalierbare Kommunikation zwischen weitverteilten Energieanlagen
This year's Young Talents Award of Leibniz-Kolleg Potsdam was dedicated to outstanding achievements in advancing the Internet. The jury honors Matthias for his advanced and extensive contributions to Internet Group Communication with a 2.500 € support for his future research.
Benjamin Jochheim has won the prize for best student poster at the TERENA Networking Conference 2011 in Prague.
Benjamin Jochheim (SKIMS project) and Matthias Wählisch receive a participation grant sponsered by Cisco to attend the TERENA Networking Conference 2011 and present their work.
INET is seeking for researchers next generation social eLearning applications Wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in für den Bereich Mobile Internettechnologien für semantische Lernnetze - Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L -zur Promotion
Our Internet Draft "Base Deployment for Multicast Listener Support in Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Domains" has been published as RFC 6224. This is joint work with Ericsson and the first RFC of the IETF MULTIMOB group.
We co-organize the 1st IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin 2011), which will be held in conjunction with the IFA.
2010
The recently presented report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission about prefix hijacking has also been discussed at Spiegel Online. Matthias Wählisch, associated member of the INET RG, helped to clarify some points.
Sebastian Meiling receives a ACM Student Travel Grant for CoNEXT 2010 conference and student workshop. At the highly renown, single track CoNEXT conference, we present two posters, on Nation-Centric Internet observation and analysis.
SKIMS research will develop "A Cooperative, Autonomous Immune System for Mobile Devices" - joined research with Freie Universität Berlin, DFN CERT and Escrypt
Multimedia research funds accredited: 185.000 € for audio synthesizing lab.
Student-initiative successful in acquiring funds: 12.000 € for cloud servers and iPhones.
Sebastian Meiling received a Travel Grant to attend the 1st SISCom-Bretagne research school on Networks and Telecommunications. June 28th - July 2nd 2010 in Rennes, France.
The master student Till Steinbach won the best work in progress paper award at the 8th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS).
INET is seeking for researchers next generation social eLearning applications
In the upcoming WS 2010/11, we offer a student project on the highly hot topic "Cloud Computing".
Matthias Wählisch receives a Cisco participation grant to attend the TERNEA Networking Conference 2010. We give a talk and present a poster at the TNC'10.
Our Internet Draft "Multicast Mobility in Mobile IP Version 6 (MIPv6): Problem Statement and Brief Survey" has been published as RFC 5757.
We are co-organizing the 1st IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Group Communication, which will be held in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM, December 6, 2010.
2009
Matthias Wählisch receives an AT&T Travel Grant for CoNEXT 2009. At the highly renown, single track CoNEXT conference, we present two posters, on hybrid adaptive multicast and on ISP interaction for traffic optimization.
Hybrid Adaptive Mobile Multicast - Research & technology made in Hamburg targets at opening the Internet layer and creating a hybrid multiservice architecture.
INET is seeking for researchers and students in the fields of future Internet design and next generation Web applications
Thomas Schmidt has been appointed as a co-chair of the IRTF research group on Scalable Adaptive Multicast (SAM).
We are co-organizing a special session at the 7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2010). The special session is about Scalable Adaptive Multicast in P2P Overlays. Please consider the following call for papers.
We presented a paper at the Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2009) and received a best paper award. Papers have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference.
Mobile Distributed Learning Dialogs in Semantic Content Networks - the new project aims at bringing together content reception and conversational exchange in elearning - a content-centric social network.
Internet inventor Robert Kahn and SAP founder Hasso Plattner conduct awarding of IPv6-compliant mobile video conferencing.
A group of international students from Internet Technologies was awarded by the Karl H. Ditze Stiftung. Their project "Mobiles Video-Netzwerk Hamburg" receives a fund of 4.800 €.
Our group is an official member of the iPhone developer university program. If you are interested in doing your bachelor or master thesis on the iPhone/iPod touch platform, please, contact us or stop by our lab (room 5.80).
Please visit us at Cebit '09 in Hall 2, Booth F20: With daviko, our Partner in Moviecast, we present an integrated H.264 Mobile Videconferencing Solution.
Moviecast student Matthias Wählisch receives Diploma Thesis Award from SeReS Unit, Insbruck
2008
Master Student Olaf Christ receives Master thesis award by Karl H. Ditze-Stiftung
The German IPv6 Council has been established with the clear mission to advocate IPv6 by improving technology, market, and deployment, creating a quality and secure Next Generation Internet. We joined work in the German IPv6 Council.
We have been invited to present our work on multicast security at the final competition of the "2. Deutscher IT-Sicherheitspreis" (2nd German IT-Security Award).
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Network Anomaly Detection in Cars: A Case for Time-Sensitive Stream Filtering and Policing
Our Security Model for Web-Based Communication is now published as Research Highlight in CACM
"A Review of Techniques for Ageing Detection and Monitoring on Embedded Systems" has been published in ACM Computing Surveys
"The Log4j Incident: A Comprehensive Measurement Study of a Critical Vulnerability", our extended study of the Log4shell attacks since Dec. 2021, has been published in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management .
Our measurement studies on the QUIC handshake and the DDoS Landscape have been accepted at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference
Peter Kietzmann successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "On Information-centric Resiliency and System-level Security in Constrained, Wireless Communication"
This year's Traffic Measurement and Analysis conference (TMA) was held at TU Dresden
Internet Edge of Doubled Intelligence: Use Energy Where it's Produced
Our work on efficient Delta Time Encoding for Content-Centric Networking turned into an RFC.
HAW-INET erhält eine halbe Million Euro vom BMBF für die zivile Sicherheitsforschung mit IoT-Technologien
Rethinking LoRa for the IoT: An Information-centric Approach
Securing Name Resolution in the IoT: DNS over CoAP
The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI): A Survey on Measurements and Future Prospects - now prepublished in IEEE Transactions on Network and Security Management
PUF for the Commons: Enhancing Embedded Security on the OS Level - now prepublished in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
DNS over CoAP is our proposal to secure name resolution for the IoT - currently in standardization
Today, Marcin presented our Systematization-of-Knowledge (SoK) Paper on Honeypot efficiency for DDoS detection.
Our papers on IoT networking with RIOT propose new ways to Internet communication via BLE and LoRa
Untersuchung der Eignung des LoRa Übertragungsverfahrens für Sicherheitskritische Drahtlose Anwendungen im Flugzeug.
Our paper "On the Interplay between TLS Certificates and QUIC Performance" was awarded twice at CoNEXT'22
Spoki: Unveiling a New Wave of Scanners through a Reactive Network Telescope
Our paper analyzes the impact of TLS certificates on QUIC handshakes and reveals severe flaws