On 11/22/06, Lemon Obrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... SSL is TCP based, hop-to-hop implies UDP.
see the new DTLS work for a datagram transport. [0]
I know SSL b/c I've written a driver for the protocol. If you use some type of SSL between nodes, it's be really slow, and each node would have to have its own certificate.
you are making cipher suite and key distribution assumptions. you can have opportunistic key exchanges, anonymous diffie hellman, etc. ssl/tls speed is less and less an issue these days, particularly for p2p environments lacking the centralized congestion of large secure sites that speak https.
you can, of course, write your own encryption.
almost always a bad idea and requires expert skill to do properly. [1] best regards, 0. "Datagram TLS" http://crypto.stanford.edu/~nagendra/projects/dtls/dtls.html 1. "Snake Oil" http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9902.html#snakeoil _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
