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Google's Obfuscated TCP

Posted by kdawson on from the third-time's-the-charm dept.

agl42 writes "Obfuscated TCP is attempting to provide a cheap opportunistic encryption scheme for HTTP. Though SSL has been around for years, most sites still don't use it by default. By providing a less secure, but computationally and administratively cheaper, method of enctyption, we might be able to increase the depressingly small fraction of encrypted traffic on the Internet. There's an introduction video explaining it."

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  1. Extra security by DaVince21 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I foresee this bringing extra security to already secured sites too. Nice.
    What would the general extra overhead be when this is implemented into TCP, though?

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