On 27 April 2016 at 16:50, Mirja Kühlewind
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I briefly brought this up in the last meeting and would like to start the 
> discussion on the mailing list now. The working group decided that tcpinc 
> will not encrypt the TCP header for good reasons. However, it would still be 
> possible to encrypt TCP options. This could help keeping confidentiality and 
> would avoid that a middle could alter information in a option or strip it. 
> Not sure if there is a case where some options should be encrypted and some 
> not but I guess that would be possible as well. Any thoughts?

Why not encrypt on an ad-hoc basis?  You could have new options
encrypted, and define encrypted variants of existing options.  It's a
little tricky to get this stuff right though.  See for example
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6904

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