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UDP and me
- bediger4000 12y agoThis is a pretty good article, it reveals some of the "why" about TCP/IP and UDP/IP. One particularly revealing paragraph that's not about the "why": One project where my friend and officemate Steven T. Kent (now chief scientist and vice president at BBN, and a chief advisor to NSA) and I lost was our strong argument to put mandatory end-to-end encryption into TCP (and adaptations of the ideas to UDP-based protocols, such as RTP, hich I worked out but abandoned). Steve’s design was rejected, not because it was unsound, but because NSA did not want to see ANY encryption work going on in the public domain ARPA project, some say because they did not want to see the world be “too secure” by default. That's very interesting. This Steven T. Kent goes from technical grunt to advisor to the NSA. I should temper my paranoia by mentioning that "not ANY encryption" was pretty standard for the whole US government all the way up to the end of the "Crypto Wars" in the 1990s.