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

jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Sun, 08 September 2013 20:20 UTC

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    > From: Edward Lopez <elopez@fortinet.com>

    > I agree that asymmetric encryption may be more desirable in theory, but
    > in practice symmetric encryption supports much higher performance loads

Use asymmetric encryption to exchance symmetric keys, switch to a new
symmetric key every X hours, and throw away the old one. (You don't want to
use one key for too much traffic, anyway.)

	Noel

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