TCP and UDP protocols for secure information transfer through SSL-VPN tunnels

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Authors: Sheyda V. V.

Annotation: The following article is a summary of a thorough research on a possibility of UDP and TCP protocols usage for secure data transfer through SSL VPN tunnels. As a result of the research the measurements of data transfer speed and video streaming quality correspondence to probability of packet loss were taken for both TCP and UDP protocols. A solution for «traffic meltdown» and problems related to UDP traffic tunneling was also proposed as a result of this research.

Keywords: virtual private network, client, server, tunnel, protocol, traffic meltdown effect