Google Summer of Code 2014 - IPP-over-USB printer support - Joint project idea for OpenPrinting and the kernel

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:01:07 +0100, Till Kamppeter said:

> all non-Windows operating systems). IPP network printers have a lot of
> advantages compared to USB printers (letting the ability of several
> computers on a network being able to access them aside):
>
> - Encrypted job transfer

I'll merely point out that encrypted transfer doesn't mean much for
a USB transfer - if an attacker is able to play with your USB you have
far greater problems than that to worry about...
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