Stephen Farrell

https://test.defo.ie has a bunch of automated test of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) based around a python test generation framework, and use of scripting and selenium for headless browser tests. The project is to a) replicate that setup on another machine, and b) propose and implement enhancements to the test setup that can later be added … Read more

We contributed the code for the experimental Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) feature to the curl project. As curl is just a client, current ECH tests require use of an external ECH-enabled server, which is undesirable. The project’s goal is to make progress on devloping curl ECH tests, which likely requires development of a test server … Read more

The Bundle Protocol (BP, RFC9171) is a delay tolerant transport protocol. The project is to survey available BP implementations, to setup interoperability testing for a subset of those, to report on results found and possibly to propose improvements/fixes where interoperability issues are discovered.

Email is inherently a delay-tolerant application. However, modern email deployments involve online checks used by anti-spam mechanisms, non-standard UA/MS interactions, MFA client authentication and hop-by-hop encryption all of which can be problematic in the face of high delays or disruptions, and perhaps especially at scale. The project here is to analyse how significant delay and … Read more