Subject: [ietf-privacy] Article reference: Encrypt Early, Encrypt Often

From: Dean Willis <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:19:41 -0500

See:

http://drdobbs.com/security/231300517?cid=DDJ_nl_upd_2011-08-09_h

Author Andrew Binstock herein encourages users of cloud services to encrypt their data, noting that "By encrypting data themselves, using software with no backdoor, sites can assure themselves of privacy. The cloud provider, government officials, and hackers cannot get at the data in usable form."

But in today's world, the act of encrypting data draws attention to it. In other words, the technology designed to protect our privacy destroys that very privacy.

The only solution is to make privacy, and its delivery mechanism "encryption", the default condition. If everything is encrypted, the stuff we care about doesn't stand out, and privacy is preserved.

So, why are we still developing protocols that actively prevent privacy by encouraging unnecessary clear-text communication?

--
Dean