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

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On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     > From: Scott Brim <scott.brim@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>     > 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? :-)

One easy fix then would be to have a MUST encrypt traffic between
xTRs, and that the encryption used MUST be strong. Are LISP@WG up for
the challenge? :-)

The userbase and deployment are relative small atm so it's doable to
get fast deployment to.



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