[Cryptography] Thoughts about keys

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Wed Sep 11 04:43:54 EDT 2013


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 09:01:49PM +0200, Guido Witmond wrote:

> My scheme does the opposite. It allows *total strangers* to exchange
> keys securely over the internet.

With a FOAF routing scheme with just 3 degrees of separation
there are not that many strangers left.

If you add opportunistic encryption at a low transport
layer, plus additional layers on top of you've protected
the bulk of traffic.
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