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I don't see why we should even be trying to make base level protocols like this "secure". Focus on reliability and simplicity, leave security to another level o
by creato 6y ago
I don't see why we should even be trying to make base level protocols like this "secure". Focus on reliability and simplicity, leave security to another level of the stack. VOIP and web browsing services should be encrypted, who cares whether the low level protocol is encrypted or not?
Anything that needs to be standardized and stable for decades needs to be simple, and it shouldn't matter whether there are vulnerabilities, because those are inevitable.
- knorker 6y agoSome things can't be done on the top level. E.g. anti-tracking and metering. Also because airtime is a scarce resource it's not as simple as "just give me a lower layer and I'll run VOIP". The requirements (and performance and reliability) of voice calls is higher than skype over an IP network on mobile. E.g. there's a reason SCTP is actually used here. Phone networks are in some ways rightly very different from pure packet Internet. Sometimes just for historical reasons from the olden times, but often also justifiably so. I could go on and on, but tl;dr: it's not that simple, but you're also not wrong.