[stipes]

I read this back as a private preprint. Definitely well designed (a good fit for USENIX, where it will be published). They had to overcome some significant technical hurdles in order to get it to be properly backwards compatible (issues with TCP header size, NAT boxes, etc.).

My biggest interest is in the much lower computational overhead for the server, which, I can hope, will mean it will get used much more often than TLS/SSL (thus the idea of it being "ubiquitous").

There's growing interest in the idea of "opportunistic encryption", where the results are transparent and beneficial, but not always guaranteed. (I'm working on this in a different area currently.)