Re: [Monotone-devel] Transport encryption

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:59:03AM +0200, Jon Bright wrote:
> Using SSH is just as easy as using Telnet, though, and avoids me having 
> to think too much about what I'm transferring, whether there are 
> eavesdroppers, etc.  The same can be said of encryption in monotone.  If 
> (for me as a user) it's nice and simple to use encryption and basically 
> has no noticeable penalty, then I gain the same warm, fuzzy feelings I 
> gain from using SSH --- even if I don't actually really need the encryption.

Okay, right, sure -- since we _can_ make things private, and users
sort of expect things they say over the internet to be private, we
definitely should, whenever possible.

I was just saying that I wasn't following why the original poster
thought that it was critical, rather than just a might-as-well,
occasionally people need it, sort of thing.

-- Nathaniel

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