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So shall we expect the USB protocol to go encrypted? The USB committee (I don't know their actual name) can act as a root CA.

It doesn't take a lot of compute to encrypt at my typing rate. I'd expect high transfer rate devices to probably already have the hardware (e.g everyone at rest).



There was a 2016 draft proposal for USB-C authentication, https://www.anandtech.com/show/10251/usbc-authentication-ann...


It's not just a draft, the data required for a lot of this is already being included in cables currently being sold. I'm not aware of it actually being used, though.




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