On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 10:54 -0600, Steve wrote: > Therefore I would like to propose that we create a new protocol which > is not susceptible to man in the middle attacks, and is stable, safe, > secure and reliable.
You are either forgetting or mis-understanding the OSI model which details the layers of protocols. Comcast's approach to kill connections is targeted at the TCP layer. This makes every layer on top of TCP vulnerable, including FTP, HTTP, Gopher, SMTP, IMAP, POP, etc, etc, etc. > However instead of using TCP, and a connection based protocol, it > should use UDP and a connectionless protocol. The overhead of TCP really isn't that bad. Only 3 packets to start a connection. And an extra return packet for each packet sent. p2p apps wouldn't work very well on top of UDP. UDP has no delivery guarantee. Your proposal will increase overhead beyond that of TCP, because no you have to re-implement retransmissions and data order. Causing even slower downloads. --lonnie /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
