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miohtama on Sept 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf]

Could Netflix replace TLS with some in-house alternative that would push more processing to the client? Something that pre-encrypts the content on disk before sending, eliminating some of the TLS processing requirements?

floatboth on Sept 20, 2021 [–]

If you pre-encrypt contents on disk, it wouldn't be a per-user unique key.

fred256 on Sept 20, 2021 | [–]

The content is already encrypted anyway for DRM.

I'd assume TLS is used in large part for privacy reasons (so ISPs can't sell info on what shows are popular)

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