Google's Obfuscated TCP

agl42 writes "Obfuscated TCP attempts 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 encryption, we might be able to increase the depressingly small fraction of encrypted traffic on the Internet. There's an introduction video explaining it."

Comments

Re:The implications?

[beav007]

This suggestion is insanity!

This. Is. SLASHDOT!

Re:what's wrong with ipsec?

[Frogbert]

Ever set up IPSEC? Yeah, that's why.

Re:Net neutrality. user owned.

[hobbit]

You might be protecting your traffic from the wardriving kid next door, but not from your ISP

Quite. But let's wait until they've rolled out Obfuscated TCP to all their equipment before sending them a DMCA takedown notice :)