Let’s say you want to open a video download from a remote machine. IPETEE would first test whether the remote machine is supporting the crypto technology; once that’s confirmed it would then exchange encryption keys with the machine before transmitting your actual request and sending the video file your way. All data would automatically be unscrambled once it reaches your machine, so there would be no need for your media player or download manager to support any new encryption technologies. And if the remote machine didn’t know how to handle encryption, the whole transfer would fall back to an unencrypted connection.
So if it’s technically possible, let’s go for it! Sure this brings some issues with security (like CSI-like need to identify who downloaded that content), but I guess we all deserve a little privacy on the web, right?
But he seemed optimistic that he would have at least a proof of concept implementation ready by the end of the year.
Source: NewTeeVee