Comment A grain of salt (Score 1) 127
This doesn't seem to be the "incredible intellectual achievement" claimed in the article. Most modern radio-based communications do the exact same thing in the form of frequency hopping. And those system don't require a central host to mediate (although they don't have to worry about routing tables, which leads to . . .)
From the 'gotcha' front, I wonder how they addressed the problem allowable IP addresses to jump between. I would think you would always be limited to the subdomain routed by the host you connect to. If you are connecting from and to huge domains, it's not as bad, but if there is very little traffic in or out, it would be easy to reassemble your session simply by ignoring the IPs and capturing everything. Either way, you are relying on obscurity to provide security.
Although I wouldn't call it a bad idea, I don't think this qualifies as a good one.
-Trevor
From the 'gotcha' front, I wonder how they addressed the problem allowable IP addresses to jump between. I would think you would always be limited to the subdomain routed by the host you connect to. If you are connecting from and to huge domains, it's not as bad, but if there is very little traffic in or out, it would be easy to reassemble your session simply by ignoring the IPs and capturing everything. Either way, you are relying on obscurity to provide security.
Although I wouldn't call it a bad idea, I don't think this qualifies as a good one.
-Trevor
