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Re: [privacy] AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter Your Traffic


From: Dave Dittrich <dittrich () u washington edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:24:01 -0800

Paul Ferguson wrote:
Network-level filtering means your Internet service provider  Comcast,
AT&T, EarthLink, or whoever you send that monthly check to  could soon
start sniffing your digital packets, looking for material that infringes on
someone's copyright.

They're not the only ones getting ready.  There are at least 5 anonymous
P2P file sharing networks that use RSA or Diffie-Hellman key exchange
to seed AES/Rijndael encryption at up to 256 bits. See:

http://www.planetpeer.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page


You can only filter that which you can see, and there are many ways
to make it hard to see what's going over the wire.

-- 
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