If Telex is ever to become adopted on a wide-scale, it needs to happen now. Think about it: governments, in general, are not becoming more friendly toward an open Internet.
No governing body will want to deploy Telex more next year than they do this year.
Each Telex Station has it's own private key which it uses to decrypt the 224 bit tag. If one Telex station loses its private key, then the user will just use another.
government help will likely be needed to get a system like Telex off the ground
I can't see this as being good for international policy. Imagine China's response to the US directly helping people circumvent their controls. That might as well be a soft declaration of war.
Unfortunately, I don't see why any government (including western democracies) would support a system that reduces their ability to censor traffic within its borders.
I'm not well-versed in cryptography, but how do I know that I'm talking to a "trustworthy telex"? What's to prevent the bad guy from poisoning the network with his "telex" router?
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Each Telex Station has it's own private key which it uses to decrypt the 224 bit tag. If one Telex station loses its private key, then the user will just use another.
I can't see this as being good for international policy. Imagine China's response to the US directly helping people circumvent their controls. That might as well be a soft declaration of war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex