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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."

2 of 12 comments (clear)

  1. No responses by owlstead · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Any reason why there are no responses here? Have they been obfuscated somehow?
     

  2. Brilliant Idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If this were to make it into the regular version of Firefox or Apache then it would be really useful, but it truly belongs in the kernel's TCP/IP stack.