Comment by mjevans

1 day ago

Why does Space need to decrypt a vast majority of the traffic? Flow can be just as brick not-smart as fiber optic cables under the sea.

Now, management, control, etc? Yeah those you need to decode in orbit.

> Flow can be just as brick not-smart as fiber optic cables under the sea

Wouldn't this still leak metadata for routing?

  • Depending on the spot beam size, the only thing you'd always learn is the ground station's rough geographic location.

    Anything else could be masked by metadata encryption, rotating lower layer identifiers, and cover traffic. Not sure if any actual protocols do that though.