On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 01:53:23AM +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> On 10/24/2013 01:47 AM, Richard Barnes wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Not everything that goes in or out of ietf.org via
> SMTP is public. See ombudspersonage discussion for
> example. Or nomcom. For most lists, yes, this isn't
> much of a deal over and above dogfood consumption.
But the whole point of Opportunistic Encryption, which is essentially
what STARTTLS is about, is to encrypt as much of the traffic as possible
to discourage targetting any particular traffic for analysis.
This is why you might run a newsfeed through an IPsec link carrying more
sensitive traffic, so that the sheer volume makes it impractical to
decode or suspect it all.
> S
>
> > --Richard
> >
> >>> -Jim
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