Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc...
by ohyes on Thursday November 17, 2016 @07:14PM
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To some extent we just need something better than https and the various email protocols that we have for securely transmitting data, with built in blinding for sender and reciever. (Only the receiver knows it is a message for them). Stuff should never be in the clear on an intermediary server, and it should be at least resistant to MITM (everything should be signed). It isn't an easy problem. But you can't snoop on and censor what you can't decipher.
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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc...
by tscs37 on Friday November 18, 2016 @02:00AM
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The problem is that blinding for sender and receiver is hard to achieve on a route-based mesh.
On the internet you need to know the receiver and sender of a message, otherwise you have no idea where it's going and the best method to from there is to use very inefficient methods.
HTTPS and IMAP over TLS already achieve MITM-resistance, as long as you verify the certificate.
With TLS (and SSL to some extend) you can't snoop on and censor data, not without compromising the sender (assuming you trust their certificate explicitly).