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Comment by Perseids

12 years ago

Why is the traffic in the fiber cables not encrypted between the endpoints? That would instantly nullify the attacks. Is AES hardware not cheap enough yet?

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jlgreco  12 years ago

Traditionally encryption is left to higher layers.

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