[sldev] Cryptographic signing of UDP packets

[Tateru Nino]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> The proposed solutions are these:
>
> 1. add a signature to each packet.
> 2. encrypt each packet
> 3. transfer money-related packets over SSL
> 4. wrap the entire session in an IPSEC layer
>
> Of these, I think option 3 is most secure, most standards-compliant,
> and lowest overhead. It would also be likely to increase the
> reliability of money transactions at the cost of some increased
> latency. Since money transactions are not real-time events, and even
> many seconds of additional latency is acceptable, there's no reason
> not to use it. 
Option 3 also gives choices for stronger authentication.

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