On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wednesday, Nov 18, 2015 9:20 AM Steven Barth wrote:
>> The basic idea behind the SHOULD is that there may be cases where either
>> physical security of links (e.g. cables) can be ensured or link-layer
>> security such as WPA for WiFi is present. In these cases (e.g. some sort
>> homenet wifi repeater) the DTLS would be redundant.
>
> WPA2, at least in PSK mode, does not provide confidentiality from attackers 
> who have the PSK.   WPA isn't even as good as WPA2.   I think relying on this 
> level of security makes sense if we have no alternative, but in no other case.

I don't think DTLS with PSK is much better than WPA2 with PSK...

Henning Rogge

_______________________________________________
homenet mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet

Reply via email to