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		GordonS on March 30, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satelli... What benefits would a lower-level encryption protocol provide over TLS (or anything else on top of layer 3/4)?

walrus01 on March 30, 2018 [–]

None, really, this can be treated like any other ISP connection. Build things with solid RSA+SHA384 TLS1.2 and 1.3, battle tested VPN tech, etc. There is no need for anything special unique to it being a satellite link.

GordonS on March 30, 2018 | [–]

That's what I thought too - I was just wondering what the parent had in mind.

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