Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]> wrote: >> The term opportunistic has become the new synonym for 'Good' but it is >> being used for many different things.
> Since I am the primary perpetrator of the thought crime in question,
:-)
> I'd like to explain the term we used, and why, and solicit a better
> term if the IETF has a better way of expressing the underlying idea.
> Background:
> In the Postfix community, we've historically used the term
> "opportunistic TLS":
> http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html#client_tls_may
> to refer to a client that employs TLS encryption without any
> authentication when the server's EHLO response includes STARTTLS.
> In this case the client is willing to otherwise send in the clear,
> and, in fact, will fallback to cleartext when the TLS handshake fails.
I think that this term is consistent with rfc4322's use of opportunistic
(IPsec) encryption.
(I clipped the rest, because I have nothing to add)
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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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