Linux Ready to Upstream Support for Google's PSP Encryption for TCP Connections

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PSP-Encryption-Linux-6.18

33•Bender•3h ago

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phoronixrly•2h ago

Source https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-n...

Documentation https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-n...

kasabali•2h ago

Why would Google have encryption for Playstation Portable?

reactordev•2h ago

Why would you associate Sony with Google?

homarp•45m ago

psp =psp security protocol = PlayStation Portable security protocol

hence the question

doublerabbit•44m ago

Both as evil as each other?

SloopJon•2h ago

The blog post announcing the PSP Security Protocol as open source:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/ann...

HN discussion at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31437033

notherhack•2h ago

For anyone else who's wondering what PSP is, from the Google spec[1]:

  The PSP Security Protocol (PSP) is a security protocol created by Google for encryption in
  transit. PSP uses several of the concepts from IPsec ESP to provide an encryption
  encapsulation layer on-top of IP that is streamlined and custom-built to address the
  requirements of large-scale data centers.

So "PSP" really is a recursive acronym for "PSP Security Protocol". eyeroll

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/psp/main/doc/PSP_Ar...

pkulak•1h ago

Oh good. They made up an acronym, yet managed to find one of the ones already in the heaviest (computing) use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSP

mobilemidget•53m ago

Should the acronym not be 'PSPSP'? Or that sounds too much like luring a cat?

IshKebab•35m ago

Not only that but since they chose a super original and totally not cringeworthy recursive acronym the first letter could have been literally anything.

Ok in fairness it was probably originally something like Paul's Security Protocol and they felt that that wasn't professional enough or something.

Polizeiposaune•21m ago

It appears to be referred to as the "Paddywhack Security Protocol" in some documents:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3708821.3710829

https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-modu...

https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OCP-NET-Falcon

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