newteevee.com — The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The project, which is still in its initial stages, goes by the name “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets,” or IPETEE for short.
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springboksJul 10, 2008
Pirate Bay is like porn in the early 90's remember everyone frowned at pornography, but the technology brought by porn is what the web thrives on, think YouTube (steaming video). Pirate Bay is doing the same thing. Good on them.
ovalteenJul 10, 2008
Re: money. Only if you want your SSL cert signed by a CA. There's nothing stopping you from creating your own, which will then allow you to have encrypted comms. Yes, nobody can vouch for your certificates trustworthiness, but this is a problem with TPB's idea as well.In any case, the difficulties in sorting out a few issues with a tried and proven solution like SSL or TLS are insignificant compared with the difficulties involved in rolling out a non-standard proprietary solution from an unreputable vendor and getting everybody to agree to use it. Assuming they finish it in the first place.
Closed AccountJul 10, 2008
You should read The GNU Privacy Handbook ( <a class="user" href="http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html">http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html</a> ). The only way to ensure a certificate is authentic is to exchange fingerprints in real life (on the phone, in person, ...).
raelmiuJul 12, 2008
I have no idea how this would work.. Sorta leaning towards that it cant work. But I hope to god it does!
thedunedainJul 28, 2008
Agreed. This is some sort of IPsec IPv4 rehash.It's also not going to encrypt the "entire internet" - encryption must be agreed upon by both ends else an unsecure connection will be used.
reddog_x2000Aug 4, 2008
I like this in theory. Let's see if it pans out.
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needainstallJan 15, 2009
Personally, I think this is a fantastic idea and would very much love to see all Internet traffic, regardless of content or purpose, encrypted.I would gladly accept some performance degradation for encryption capabilities.
liveinthenowMar 10, 2010
IPsec is already established thus couldn't be used.