Re: [Monotone-devel] Question on layering

[Ethan Blanton]

Paul Crowley spake unto us the following wisdom:
> What proportion of the network traffic is MAC packets?  That will go 
> down when we switch to SSL.

There are no MAC "packets"; there is a MAC appended to every
higher-layer netsync object.  For small objects, that would be
nontrivial overhead.

However, as was discussed when the HMAC went in, SSL stream
authentication sort of solves a different problem from an HMAC on each
netsync entity.  It's not clear that one should go away in favor of
the other, at least to me.

Ethan

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