On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Matthew Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Corporate firewalls let 80 and 443 through from their employees'
> browers. Pretty much nothing else.
>
> That, and the DNS requirement (which means it isn't useful for upgrading
> P2P apps like BitTorrent) means the utility has probably dropped to zero
> at this point.

The DNS trick isn't a requirement, the transport protocol can use any
method of getting the peer's public key. Also, P2P apps can use
whatever transport security they like, they have no problems there.

The firewall issue is a real one. Those users are stuck. (Note that
it's intended that browsers probe for such a setup, nothing should
break for them.)

The utility may be zero, we'll see how it goes. If the transport layer
sucks as much in 12 months time, I'll be trying something else.


Cheers

AGL

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Adam Langley [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.imperialviolet.org
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