[privacy] Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs

[Paul Ferguson]

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Commentary via NetworkWorld.

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An old cipherpunk saying goes, “There’s power in numbers — large
prime numbers.” Encryption is a very powerful tool that's used by almost
all companies to secure data in transit over untrusted networks. Up to now
we’ve used encryption to protect against criminal elements, but what
about using it to protect our data from service providers?

Encryption can shield our data from overzealous “traffic management,”
which is what some providers are calling it when they send a TCP RST to
both ends of traffic that they don’t like. I call that denial of service.

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More:
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/110607antonopoulos.html

- - ferg

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