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Opportunistic Encryption of IP traffic: FreeS/WAN 2.0
Russ Nelson writes "Since 1996, John Gilmore has
dreamed of an Internet where all traffic between cooperating sites is
encrypted. He has supported the FreeS/WAN project which uses IPSEC to encrypt IP traffic on
an opportunistic encrypting basis. The team has released Linux
FreeS/WAN 2.00, their first release optimized for Opportunistic
Encryption (OE). After installation, ZERO host configuration is
required for OE! A Linux box running 2.00 will encrypt all IP packets
to other OE capable boxes whenever possible, provided you publish a
key and IPsec gateway information in DNS." Nice.
First post!
So I'm a pervert. Welcome to the Internet.
I think Outlook Express... and I run away.
*** John_Gilmore is now known as Happy_Gilmore.
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I just wrote this up real quickly since we got back from the movie just now. BTW, I don't care if you believe me or not. Just bookmark the post and come back in 13 days and see how right it is. I wanted to thank Warner Bros. for the sneak preview. Also, excuse the grammer/spelling/etc. errors. I wrote this in 5 minutes so i wouldn't forget everything. Ask me if you want anything filled in. =)
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Just went to Matrix Reloaded. Good movie.
It opens with Trinity attacking a yet unknown location. All of a sudden, she jumps off the building (this is shown is the trailer) and is being pursued by an Agent. She gets shot. Neo wakes up and realizes it was a dream. He gets out of bed (Trinity is with him) and goes into the other room. They try to talk but he says nothing. Cut to next scene of Morpheous and other captains talking inside the Matrix. Interestingly, we learn that Morpheous is not really a big shot leader but rather just another peon in the world of Zion. There is a knock at the door. It is Agent Smith with something for Neo. It is his ear piece since he is no longer a part of the matrix.
Fight scene ensues with Agents.
There is an arugment and the ship pulls into Zion. Machines are boring down we learn. Learn the general's woman used to be morpheous' woman who is a captain.
Morpheous speaks to people. Big party. Trinity and Neo have sex. Counselor talks to Neo.
Cut to scene of the glowing asian guy protecting the Oracle.
Oracle talks to Neo about choices and tells him about the Keymaker.
She leaves. Agents come. Agent Smith multiplies and a huge playground fight starts (shown in trailer). Agent smith is replicating himself somehow but putting his hand inside the person and taking them over. Neo then leaves.
They go to find the keymaker at the French-wannabe information seller who is also a Matrix programmer. See Monica Beluchi.
Find Keymaker through Monica's help. They find those weird white guys. The programmer says he has handled Previous "neos" and survived. Chase ensues. Freeway scene. Ducoti chase scene.
Back to zion for counsel meeting and they send two more ships.
Keymaker tells Neo about the special building with a bridge to "the source". The plan involves three teams. One to knock out power, one to infiltrate and the third for support. One of the power plant teams dies due to an attack from the octopus machines. Trinity was told earlier to not enter the matrix because the premenatition neo got at the beginning is of Trinity being killed. But the backup systems for the power plant came on. If they open the "backdoor" into the building, neo dies. She goes into the Matrix. We learn the scene is her attacking the power plant. She "ssh"'s in and shuts the grid down right as Neo and crew is making it into the building. The keymaker is shot by agent smiths! He dies as the door shuts. Neo enters the door to "the source". He meets an old gray bearded man named "the architect". We learn that he created 5 previous matrix's. They all had flaws. The oracle is called the "mother" and he calls himself "the father". Neo is called an anomaly who previous 5 people have come and gone. Basically here the nature of the matrix is described. The choice is given that neo can walk through one of 2 doors. Through one, he'll save trinity who is falling off the power plant and about to be shot or through the other door he can take 16 men and 7 women to repopulate Zion. Either way, Zion will be destroyed by the boring machines. "the architect" says that neo is different since he has learned to love trinity. Neo picks the door to save trinity. By the way, Neo can fly in the movie. So he flies like a bullet and barely catches the falling trinity but she is shot. He pulls the bullet out and restarts her heart. "they are now even" is what trinity says. They get out of the matrix and learn that the defenses of zion are not standing up well due to the treachery of one ship. Earlier in the movie, Agent Smith took over this person's body/m
I've heard these systems are notoriously slow to encrypt the data depending on what is being encrypted. Is this true?
PS. Where'd the icons for the front page stories go?
Hey! You're never too old to realize trading freedom for security is a bad idea!
I'm against terrorism as much as the next guy, but let's look at the facts here. Government is never going to release official documents giving true statistics on how often interception of secure communications resulted in capture of a terrorist.
Say they invade the privacy of 50,000 individuals, and mistakenly go after 25 people from this information. Finally, they get 2 terrorists. What do you think the news is going to say? I'd wager it'll trump up how "2 suspected terrorists were captured today, thanks to interception of emails between them and known Al Queida leaders."
It's not that you're receiving incorrect information/news. It's simply that it's filtered.
In any case, I'm a firm believer in giving people the tools they need to accomplish a task, and letting them take charge of their own destinies. Opportunistic encryption is certainly a nice "tool" to add to the computer toolbox.
Right now, the biggest problem we face with encryption tools is automatic suspicion we're doing "something bad/wrong" just because we use it. If it gets rolled into OS's as a default option, that silly argument vanishes.
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