JA3/JA4 - TLS Client Fingerprinting
The internet is full of bots and some aren't nice (DDoS, scraping, exploits, AI..). To block bots, we must identify them in the traffic. That's hard as some pretend to be human/browsers! Let's explore JA3/JA4 hashes, fingerprinting the TLS handshake.
Internet traffic is mostly encrypted - one SNI extension still causes trouble. Encrypted Client Hello aims to fix this for a price of dependency on big tech. Is this the way?
I've created a newsletter app as a competition entry (didn't win). Here's the writeup. Uses AI to report on AI!
I'd like to have a complete Advent of Code collection. This time I tackled 2015, 2020 and 2025.
Let's run some local models on a spare old GPU. Using Ollama and OpenWebUI we can enjoy plenty of pleasant features without breaking a sweat.