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by dna_polymerase 999 days ago
Crypto matters for exactly this reason. All my internet traffic passes through unsafe middle-boxes, it is TLS and DH that make sure I can pass through untrusted middlemen without them knowing what is going on.
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slt2021 999 days ago
Cavium chips are installed on security appliances (lol): think Palo alto firewall, fortinet firewall, F5 Big-IP etc.

they will see your traffic in plain text by design

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irreticent 999 days ago
If everything is encrypted then you're safe... until you decrypt the data on a machine with a backdoored CPU.
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