Re: [obscurity-interest] [ietf-privacy] wrt tcpcrypt and obscrypt

[Dean Willis <[e-mail]>]

On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:49 PM, =JeffH wrote:

> > 1) We should try to drive the widespread use of encryption.This makes
> > encrypted real-time channels (and other things that benefit from security)
> > stand out less than they otherwise might. The general principle is that good
> > network citizens, along with sharing the net gracefully, should help their
> > neighbors hide from attacks.
> >
> > Along these lines, we'd like to encourage the IETF to NOT develop more
> > protocols with encrypted and unencrypted variants. Unless protocols NEED to
> > be unencyypted, they need to be protected. We should also encourage
> > deprecation of the current unencrypted variants.
> >
> >
> > everybody should look at the "tcpcrypt" draft. This has the potential to
> > opportunistically encrypt applications using TCP and nicely augments TCP
> > applications.It might be possible to do somethi'ng similar to do something
> > similsr for UDP.
> 
> In terms of the latter, I believe you mean..
> 
> draft-bittau-tcp-crypt-00
> 
> see also: http://tcpcrypt.org/
> 
> I've played with the impl on linux and it apparently worked. ( I left comment #46 here: http://tcpcrypt.org/fame.php )
> 


Yes, that's the one. I talked it over with co-author Mark Handley while in Prague. He had so far not done much to socialize the draft, but was starting to talk about it some during the meeting. I also discussed with with EKR, who didn't seem to see much of an advantage over TLS.

> 
> there's also this similar work to take a look at..
> 
> Opportunistic Encryption Everywhere - Adam Langley
> http://w2spconf.com/2009/papers/s1p2.pdf
> 
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Obfuscated_TCP
> 
> 

Good reference. Thanks!

> AdamL brought his stuff up on the tcp list (not sure offhand of exact list moniker) and it got shot down (so he felt, but he didn't try for more than just 3 days to get acceptance... :)
> 

It's hard to get stuff past the TLS lobby, I think.

--
Dean