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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

Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sat, 07 September 2013 09:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: decentralization of Internet (was Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA
From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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On 7 Sep 2013, at 04:05, jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote:

>> From: Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.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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