Lemon, There is no fundamental reasons, why SSL cannot be used on a top of UDP. BTW, the first thing SSL does with TCP is organizing the message-based protocol on a top of TCP, which is a stream protocol by its nature.
And not all ciphers are slow. For example, RC4 can be quite fast, and it considered to be secure when properly used. Lemon Obrien wrote: >>>Could a SSL hop-to-hop communication really improve the general > security of a P2P systems > > SSL is TCP based, hop-to-hop implies UDP. 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 can, of course, write your own encryption. > > lemon > > */Luigi De Donà <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: > > Hi all, > > About the security of a software system based on a P2P protocol : > > In a distributed system (P2P) where doesn’t exist a Byzantine and > malicious faults tolerance protocol implementation, > do you think that an Internet deployment using a closed protocol is > more secure than using an open protocol ? > > Could a SSL hop-to-hop communication really improve the general > security of a P2P systems ? > > Please let me know your opinions. > > Thanks, > Luigi > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > > > You don't get no juice unless you squeeze > Lemon Obrien, the Third. > > http://www.tamago.us > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=43257/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta> > - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
