You guys.  TCP is way more than http/s.

----- Reply message -----
From: "Nico Williams" <[email protected]>
To: "Tony Arcieri" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kevin Glavin" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" 
<[email protected]>, "Eggert, Lars" <[email protected]>, "Joe Touch" <[email protected]>
Subject: [tcpinc] why not just TLS on secure port numbers?
Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2014 11:25 PM

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 06:57:10PM -0700, Tony Arcieri wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I might have thought so. Except Google did it.
> >
>
> Google is a cool story, but in my book it really doesn't count until
> everyone does it and we have full network encryption...

Right.  Big players can impose HTTPS due to the cost to a nation's
citizens (or ISP's customers) of blocking it.

To really extend this to everyone else might take confidentiality
protection for DNS queries and maybe even not having PTR RRsets.

Nico
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