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Re: decentralization of Internet (was Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

2013-09-07 04:24:23
On 7 Sep 2013, at 04:05, jnc(_at_)mercury(_dot_)lcs(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu (Noel 
Chiappa) wrote:

From: Scott Brim <scott(_dot_)brim(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>

The encapsulation is not much of an obstacle to packet examination.

There was actually a proposal a couple of weeks back in the WG to encrypt all
traffic on the inter-xTR stage.

The win in doing it in the xTRs, of course, is that you don't have to go
change all the hosts, application by application: _all_ traffic, of any kind,
from that site to any/all other sites which are encryption-enabled, will get
a certain degree of confidentiality.

Does this count as something the IETF can do reasonably quickly that will
help somewhat? :-)

It certainly wouldn't hurt :)

Tim


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