On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Stephen Farrell
<[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
> On 10/23/2013 08:09 PM, Jim Fenton wrote:
> > On 10/23/13 11:28 AM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >> Is it just me, or is it funny that we are talking about securing the
> >> inet, yet the ietf apparently doesn't do STARTTLS when sending email?
> >> and hence the perpass email list is sent out unencrypted...
> >>
> >> Guess I'll drop a note to [email protected].
> >>
> > It's not just you.  IETF SHOULD be using STARTTLS for email, not
> > particularly for this or other mailing lists (where attackers could just
> > read the archives, anyway) but because it's the Right Thing To Do.
>
> That was discussed in the DANE meeting in Berlin and
> there's a plan for eating our own dogfood, but I'm
> not sure where its at. Will check.
>
> S.
>

I can sort of see the dogfood / Right Thing To Do argument.  But it seems
kind of silly to waste the bits / cycles encrypting things whose entire
point is to be public.

--Richard



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