I am wondering about the proposals made during this discussion.
1) It appears that some of the suggestions in this thread are about not
using the existing Internet infrastructure to route packets but rather
to either use local communication technology (e.g., short range radio)
or adhoc networks.
I am not sure how practical this is given how the majority of the
applications on the Internet work today. This would obviously have
severe impacts on these applications.
2) Regarding the delegation of encryption to network nodes: Are talking
about an approach similar to Onion routing here?
While I agree that it would be good to provide protection at various
layers I wonder whether you are trying to find solutions at the wrong
layer in the protocol stack.
Ciao
Hannes
On 07.09.2013 15:20, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Roger_J=F8rgensen?=<rogerj@xxxxxxxxx>
> The userbase and deployment are relative small atm so it's doable to
> get fast deployment to.
Alas, now that I think about the practicalities.... I don't think the average
router has enough spare computing power to completely encrypt all the traffic.
Whether or not encrypting just the source+dest addresses, and the sort+dest
port (conviently next to each other in one block) is enough to do much good,
and if the average router has enough spare crunch to do even that, is a good
question.
Noel