Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
Forwarding a message sent before I fixed a Mailman restriction...


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From: Garrett Wollman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
To: XMPP Operators Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:18:11 -0400
Subject: Re: [Operators] Secure Communications Week
<<On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:59:06 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> said:

 > How about TLS with self-signed certs + server dialback? At least that
 > would give us channel encryption.

That's no better than anonymous TLS (without certificates).

This is true. I have two questions:

1. Is TLS+Dialback better than Dialback without TLS?

2. How *should* we handle certificates that are self-signed, issued by unknown CAs, etc.?

/psa

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