The decoupling principle
Paul Schmitt, Jana Iyengar, Christopher A. Wood, Barath Raghavan · 2022
The three decade struggle to ensure Internet data confidentiality---a key aspect of communications privacy---is finally behind us. Encryption is fast, secure, and standard in all browsers, modern transports, and major protocols. Yet it has long seemed that network privacy is not unified by core principles but a grab bag of techniques and ideas applied to an equally wide range of applications, contexts, layers of infrastructure, and software stacks.