[mnet-devel] Replacing EGTP with PB over SSL

[Zooko]

I have a radical suggestion: drop link encryption and use normal Twisted TCP 
connections.  Anything that I could learn from hacking into your ISP and 
sniffing your TCP connections I could learn more easily by running an Mnet 
node and peering with your Mnet node.

Maybe in the future Mnet will have features like one-hop-privacy, friendnet, 
or something else that makes that statement untrue, but in the future we can 
add link encryption back in.  Until then, if you (icepick) are spending your 
time implementing link encryption, you're probably wasting your time as far as 
real-world privacy or security goes.

(Note that block encryption does actually serve a useful privacy purpose, and 
I think we should keep it as it is currently defined and implemented in ZNFF.)

--Z



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