Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: Encrypt bitcoin messages

From: Johnathan Corgan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:35:05 -0700

On 08/19/2014 09:38 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> We've dodged several emergency scale vulnerabilities by not having TLS.

I'm still trying to understand the original premise that we want
encrypted communications between nodes.

I can certainly see the value of having *authenticated* traffic with
specific nodes, using an HMAC for the protocol messages in place of the
current checksum.

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