An amazing, detailed blog post on AES-GCM and how it completely breaks down if a nonce is ever reused: frereit.de/aes_gcm. This one hits close to home as we've had to fix this issue in Cilium's IPsec.

I've shared many talks from bpfconf'24 two weeks ago. You can now find the full list (with slides!) at vger.kernel.org/bpfconf2024.ht….

The list of papers to be published at the top networking conference, SIGCOMM, is live! conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2024/a… As usual, there's something for everyone: RDMA improvements, large-scale Internet studies, eBPF, hardware offloads, 5G QoE, BGP improvements, you name it!

For those who read French, I've uploaded the slides from my recent talk at BreizhCamp: pchaigno.github.io/assets/BreizhC…. I explained how GitHub and 🦊 GitLab detect the languages of all the files we commit.

Input grammars for fuzzing and test generation! We introduce symbolic parsing, a technique to extract input grammars _statically_ from code, without requiring any input samples. First experiments show an accuracy of 99-100%. Find us Thu 17:00 at FSE 2024: 2024.esec-fse.org/details/fse-20…

The list of papers accepted at the 2nd #eBPF workshop has been published by ACM: dl.acm.org/doi/proceeding….

🚨The program for the 2nd eBPF Workshop ACM SIGCOMM is now live🚀 Get ready for amazing papers and an exceptional keynote speaker, Brendan Gregg, who will tell us about the internals and future of 🐝, with a focus on observability use cases. Don't miss out -- check out the

.hao sun and Zhendong Su devised a new test oracle to fuzz the #eBPF verifier. In a month, they found 15 logic bugs, some leading to false positives or false negatives! The paper was published at the top OS conference: usenix.org/system/files/o…

It seems you can now also write #eBPF programs in Java 🤯 x.com/parttimen3rd/s…

In their eBPF workshop paper, Chang Liu et al. take a look at the performance of various #eBPF maps, including (per-cpu) arrays and hash maps, ring and perf buffers, queues, and stacks. Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

📢 Di Jin will be presenting our work on hardening #Linux (e)BPF against transient execution attacks at USENIX Security '24 tomorrow (Aug. 14, 1:45pm Track 2)! Joint work with Alexander Gaidis. cs.brown.edu/~vpk/papers/be… | gitlab.com/brown-ssl/beeb… | #brownssl #beebox #ebpf #bpf #usesec24

At SIGCOMM'24, Meta described how they use #eBPF to tune many aspects of the network stack for their services. Recording: youtu.be/y-SFpf8hnYU Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

This is a very nice website on what women in academia face,as "We start our summary by stating common gender stereotypes such as "women just need to act like men to succeed in academia" or "academia is fair and objective - women are just not good enough". sites.google.com/view/womeninac…

TIL: AWS relies on eBPF to make cold starts 1000x faster for functions within a VPC. From 150ms to 150μs!

The program for the #eBPF track at Linux Plumbers 2024 is up! lpc.events/event/18/sessi… (I'm told this is still subject to change.)

Excellent wrap-up for this year's #Linux #perf_tools GSoC work: lore.kernel.org/all/CAH0uvohVu… Thanks a lot to Howard Chu for the excellent work, having a BTF enabled 'perf trace' was something we really wanted for a long time, everything should land on Linux v6.12!

The eBPF Foundation is funding five #eBPF research projects! Three are about improving and verifying the eBPF verifier; one is about enabling application offloading into eBPF. I'm really excited about all of them! ebpf.foundation/ebpf-foundatio…

🐝 Using #eBPF to detect noisy neighbors at Netflix! Our latest blog post explains how we leverage eBPF to continuously instrument the Linux scheduler, which helps us detect CPU contention in multitenant environments. netflixtechblog.com/noisy-neighbor…

Also in exactly one week, I will be giving an update on Agni at the Linux Plumbers Conference 2024 #eBPF track! Agni was created by Harishankar V et al. at Rutgers University. Over the past year, we've been working to be able to routinely run it against the latest verifier. lpc.events/event/18/contr…