[sldev] Cryptographic signing of UDP packets

Meadhbh Hamrick (Infinity) infinity at lindenlab.com
Thu Dec 18 09:44:34 PST 2008


this is called "hyper-encryption" or "super-encryption"

it is occasionally "bad"

On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:32 AM, 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.
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