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We really should reinvent web traffic in encryption/secure setup is the default way.

• sounddust 17y ago
  That's one of the things that Google has proposed as part of their SPDY protocol.
• tptacek 17y ago
  With current technology, default encryption massively slows down the web. This is Dan Bernstein's key research topic (I believe he's currently working on "High Speed Cryptography", his book, but that's in support of both his DARPA grant and his mission statement, which is "default encryption for everything"). That's a cryptographer, inventing and defending entire new algorithms, because that's what he believes is necessary to achieve default encryption. In the meantime, what we really need to do is get rid of the stigma about SSL, which credibly solves the problems we're talking about on this thread.