Obfuscated TCP

This seems useful:

Obfuscated TCP is a backwards-compatible modification to the TCP protocol which adds opportunistic encryption. It’s designed to hamper and detect large-scale wiretapping and corruption of TCP traffic on the Internet.

TLS [Transport Layer Security] is the solution to protecting sensitive information. However, there’s room for a low setup cost protocol to protect the bulk of traffic which isn’t currently encrypted. It can’t stop a focused attack, but it can assuage untargeted, dragnet sniffing of backbones and spoofing of RST packets.

Note the nontechnical, “more technical,” and “technical” intros.

(Cryptome)

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