[AusNOG] NBN - GPON encryption

Mark Newton newton at atdot.dotat.org
Thu Jun 11 00:22:29 EST 2015


On Jun 10, 2015, at 11:33 PM, Radek Tkaczyk <radek at tkaczyk.id.au> wrote:

> What’s worse – is that if the encryption keys are sent in the clear on the upstream, then an attacker could in theory get those encryption keys, and then decrypt the downstream traffic as well.

You’d have to be running some pretty messed up systems if you needed to send encryption keys over a public network in cleartext though, wouldn’t you?

  - mark



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