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Re: Some thoughts on the Chinese Net
On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Carl Ellison wrote:
> >The more complex portion (from my perspective, at any rate) is a
> >modification of the standard TCP/IP protocol, requiring that each packet
> >be signed by its originating user.
>
> That's the killer. Signatures take a huge amount of CPU time. Signing
> each packet is not going to be cost effective.
Yep; this has been pointed out to me already. On this point I concur.
> However, they could have an authenticated key exchange and then symmetric-
> encrypt each TCP/IP connection. That can perform -- and has the nice
> side effect [from the Chinese POV] of depriving the NSA of Chinese civilian
> net intelligence. As long as the key exchange is signed, everything
> travelling using that key is authenticated implicitly.
How would packets coming into the country be marked / passed on?
So it seems that, in general, the Chinese supression of the net is
possible. A frightening thought. Or, if you think about potential
implications 10 yrs down the road here, a sobering thought.
Jon
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