Fergie's Tech Blog

Deploying Encryption to Protect Against ISPs

Andreas M. Antonopoulos writes on NetworkWorld:

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.

posted by Fergie @ 11/06/2007 01:10:00 PM