At Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:33:10 -0400 (EDT), Leichter, Jerry wrote: > For an interesting discussion of IPETEE, see: > > www.educatedguesswork.org/moveabletype/archives/2008/07/ipetee.html > > Brief summary: This is an initial discussion - the results of a > drinking session - that got leaked as an actual proposal. The > guys behind it are involved with The Pirate Bay. The goal is > to use some form of opportunistic encryption to make as much > Internet traffic as possible encrypted as quickly as possible - > which puts all kinds of constraints on a solution, which in > turn also necessarily weakens the solution (e.g., without some > required configuration, there's no way you can avoid MITM > attacks) and forces odd compromises.
I also have a followup post at: http://www.educatedguesswork.org/movabletype/archives/2008/07/more_on_ipetee.html -Ekr --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
