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My take-away from the article is actually "encryption as a solution to protocol ossification". If some data (headers, etc.) is available as clear-text, there wi
by avian 9y ago
My take-away from the article is actually "encryption as a solution to protocol ossification". If some data (headers, etc.) is available as clear-text, there will be routers that act on it and possibly misbehave or block traffic when they encounter new patterns.
So the article suggests that making it impossible for routers to inspect any protocol-specific information (via encryption) helps with this problem. Routers can't act on fields they can't read.
- vog 9y agoBut then you have the whole industry of "security appliances" against you, which do want to have a look, and which do want to MITM everything - ironically arguing that this makes everything safer, depite becoming themselves a huge attack surface.
- DeepYogurt 9y agoYa but they're wrong.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 9y agoThey're interested in business security at least, security of their own business I mean.
- DeepYogurt 9y agoYa I agree with the encryption statement for sure. My only complaint with the title is that UDP was used as the solution to not being able to make QUIC on top of IP directly (which is madness really, but also not the QUIC developers problem).
- askvictor 9y agoIt's not as though udp has much overhead; it's pretty damn close to straight IP