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Re: GSM eavesdropping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Tue Aug 3 11:57:46 2010
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 17:49:00 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com>,
Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100802204623.GI5213@oracle.com>
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 03:46:24PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > "The default mode for any internet communication is encrypted"
>
> That's... extreme. There are many things that will not be encrypted,
Extreme? I don't see why my ISP should be able to inspect and monetize
my data stream.
> starting with the DNS itself, and also most public contents (because
Encryption is cheap enough (especially if you cache keys from
previous sessions). Why not encrypt everything?
> their purveyors won't want to pay for the crypto; sad but true).
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Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org
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