The main problemfaced by TLSsolutionis the lackof the well-knownCertificateAuthority for user's public key certificate, andTLS can only use TCPconnect.
The tool currently only obscures SSL and TLS as the SOCKS protocol used by proxy servers, but in the future, he hopes it will be able to impersonate any sort of traffic, including HTTP or instant messages.
The other telecom operators that currently own Infonet, including Swisscom (nyse: SCM - news - people ), the Netherlands' KPN (nyse: KPN - news - people ) and Australia's Telstra (nyse: TLS - news - people ), apparently "see little strategic benefit in retaining their stakes in this business at the current market price, " the analysts note.