Saturday, December 14, 2013

Internet architects propose encrypting all internet traffic

In other words, the National Security Agency (NSA) will have defeated itself by its egregious practices leading to unintended consequences --

Internet architects propose encrypting all the world’s Web traffic | Ars Technica: "...The proposal, announced in a letter published Wednesday by an official with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), comes after documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden heightened concerns about government surveillance of Internet communications. Despite those concerns, websites operated by Yahoo, the federal government, the site running this article, and others continue to publish the majority of their pages in a "plaintext" format that can be read by government spies or anyone else who has access to the network the traffic passes over. Last week, cryptographer and security expert Bruce Schneier urged people to "make surveillance expensive again" by encrypting as much Internet data as possible...."

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