RE: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

[Steve Mikulasik <Steve.Mikulasik () civeo com>]

Look at the Steam cache project, the generic downloader can also cache Windows Updates and most gaming services. I 
imagine Windows Updates would eat a lot of traffic.

https://github.com/steamcache



From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2018 8:23 AM
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Subject: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

Has anyone outside of tech media, Silicon Valley or academia (all places wildly out of touch with the real world) put 
much thought into the impacts of encryption everywhere? So often we hear about how we need the best modern encryption 
on all forms of communication because of whatever scary thing is trendy this week (Russia, NSA, Google, whatever). 
HTTPS your marketing information and generic education pieces because of the boogeyman!

However, I recently came across a thread where someone was exploring getting a one megabit connection into their 
village and sharing it among many. The crowd I referenced earlier also believes you can't Internet under 100 megabit/s 
per home.

Apparently, the current best Internet the residents of the village can get is 40 kilobit/s. Zero oversubscription gets 
a better service to up to 25 homes. Likely that could be stretched to at least 50 or 100 homes and be better than what 
they currently have. Forget about streaming video, let's just focus on web browsing and messaging.

However, this could be wildly improved with caching ala squid or something similar. The problem is that encrypted 
content is difficult to impossible for your average Joe to cache. The rewards for implementing caching are greatly 
mitigated and people like this must suffer a worse Internet experience because of some ideological high horse in a 
far-off land.

Some things certainly do need to be encrypted, but encrypting everything means people with limited Internet access get 
worse performance OR mechanisms have to be out in place to break ALL encryption, this compromising security and privacy 
when it's really needed.

To circle back to being somewhat on-topic, what mechanisms are available to maximize the amount of traffic someone in 
this situation could cache? The performance of third-world Internet depends on you.



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