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Why does Space need to decrypt a vast majority of the traffic? Flow can be just as brick not-smart as fiber optic cables under the sea. Now, management, contr
by mjevans 1y ago
Why does Space need to decrypt a vast majority of the traffic? Flow can be just as brick not-smart as fiber optic cables under the sea.
Now, management, control, etc? Yeah those you need to decode in orbit.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Flow can be just as brick not-smart as fiber optic cables under the sea Wouldn't this still leak metadata for routing?
- etiennebausson 1y agoIt would not be perfect, but it wouldn't be purposefully shooting oneself in the foot.
- lxgr 1y agoDepending on the spot beam size, the only thing you'd always learn is the ground station's rough geographic location. Anything else could be masked by metadata encryption, rotating lower layer identifiers, and cover traffic. Not sure if any actual protocols do that though.