Obfuscated TCP is a backwards-compatible modification to the TCP protocol which adds opportunistic encryption. It's designed to hamper and detect large-scale wiretapping and corruption of TCP traffic on the Internet [1]
TLS is the solution to protecting sensitive information. However, there's room for a low setup cost protocol to protect the bulk of traffic which isn't currently encrypted. It can't stop a focused attack, but it can assuage untargeted, dragnet sniffing of backbones and spoofing of RST packets. Note that, since obstcp has a kernel component, you'd need to be able to patch and rebuild a kernel. All the information is at: http://code.google.com/p/obstcp/wiki/Testing Also, I'll be on #obstcp on OFTC today Cheers, [1] http://code.google.com/p/obstcp/ -- Adam Langley [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.imperialviolet.org _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
