Re: [Sheflug] Measures to improve safety of the internet for families

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On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:22:38PM +0000, Bob Mottram wrote:
> 
> If practices like these continue to expand in scope - and I expect
> that they will - then the logical conclusion is that most internet
> traffic will end up being encrypted.

bring on openswan and opportunistic encryption

http://wiki.openswan.org/index.php/Openswan/OpportunisticEncryption

which uses DNS to distribute public keys.

but who controls DNS ?  spot the .gov and .mil addresses

http://www.internic.net/zones/named.root
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_servers

-- 
Alan Dawson 


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