On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Justus Ranvier <justusranv...@riseup.net> wrote: > While the rest of the 'net is busy deprecating HTTP and all other > unencrypted transport methods, why is it(*) even a debate?
I think it's desirable (and you can go look in #bitcoin-dev logs for me talking about it in the past)— but all of engineering is tradeoffs... and the ones involved here don't make it a high priority in my book, esp when people should be using Bitcoin over tor in any case, which provides better privacy and also covers encrypt + auth. In general I think authentication is more important than encryption, since authentication is table stakes required for a number of anti-partitioning-attack measures. My past thinking on opportunistic encryption is that once you're authenticating also encrypting would be fairly little work, but it should be auth that drives that kind of effort. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
