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

From: Justus Ranvier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:39:09 +0000

On 08/19/2014 11:38 PM, J Ross Nicoll wrote:
> That's not great, certainly, but how many nodes actually require
> that level of security

All of them.

While the rest of the 'net is busy deprecating HTTP and all other
unencrypted transport methods, why is it(*) even a debate?

Security should be on by default. Make users who don't want it jump
through hoops to turn it off instead of the other way around.

(*) where "it" is the desirability of blocking passive surveillance,
not the particular algorithm to use.