Re: [Cryptography] Washington Post: Google racing to encrypt links between data centers

2013-09-07 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 07:53:42PM -0400, Marcus D. Leech wrote: One wonders why they weren't already using link encryption systems? One wonders whether, if what we read around here lately is much guide, they still believe they can get link encryption systems that are robust against the only

Re: [Cryptography] Washington Post: Google racing to encrypt links between data centers

2013-09-07 Thread Tony Arcieri
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: One wonders why they weren't already using link encryption systems? Probably line rate and the cost of encrypting every single fiber link. There are few vendors who sell line rate encryption for 10Gbps+ -- Tony Arcieri

Re: [Cryptography] Washington Post: Google racing to encrypt links between data centers

2013-09-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 01:53:13PM -0700, Tony Arcieri wrote: On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Marcus D. Leech mle...@ripnet.com wrote: One wonders why they weren't already using link encryption systems? Probably line rate and the cost of encrypting every single fiber link. There are few

Re: [Cryptography] Washington Post: Google racing to encrypt links between data centers

2013-09-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 04:41:04PM -0400, Richard Outerbridge wrote: Surely not Canada? After all, we're one of the five eyes! ;) Six. Sweden (FRA) is part of it. http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/154917 ___ The cryptography mailing list

[Cryptography] Washington Post: Google racing to encrypt links between data centers

2013-09-06 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Quoting: Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world, in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA as well as the intelligence agencies of foreign governments, company officials said on Friday. The move by Google is among the

Re: [Cryptography] Washington Post: Google racing to encrypt links between data centers

2013-09-06 Thread Lodewijk andré de la porte
Right. Maybe some AES32? 2013/9/7 Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com Quoting: Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world, in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA as well as the intelligence agencies of foreign