Justus Ranvier [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-08-19 📝 Original message:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED ...

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On 08/19/2014 11:38 PM, J Ross Nicoll wrote:
> That's not great, certainly, but how many nodes actually require
> that level of security

All of them.

While the rest of the 'net is busy deprecating HTTP and all other
unencrypted transport methods, why is it(*) even a debate?

Security should be on by default. Make users who don't want it jump
through hoops to turn it off instead of the other way around.


(*) where "it" is the desirability of blocking passive surveillance,
not the particular algorithm to use.
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