Hi Tim,

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> On Mar 14, 2015, at 5:27 AM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I certainly agree that any draft-*-00 almost certainly needs heavy doses of 
> IETF input.  But I’m actually failing to understand where Kathleen’s 
> suggestions are trying to go.  This draft is trying to make general points 
> that are orthogonal to any particular technology, including: 
> 
> - Positive & negative privacy failures are asymmetrically harmful
> - the right choices are hard to make, so just don't ask inexpert uses to make 
> them,
> - the cost of privacy technologies is monotonically falling
> 
> I think this draft is most useful if it can restrict itself to saying things 
> that are widely true across the tech-trade-off spectrum.  So, while transport 
> encryption is one of the most widely-used privacy technologies, the points 
> above are also true (I think) when applied to entirely different things like 
> message signing and server-side encryption-at-rest.  
> 
> Sorry, I’m entirely failing to think of what this draft might say about OS. 
> The admirable Let’s Encrypt work is I guess evidence of the 
> monotonically-decreasing-cost premise.
> 
> SPs are being asked to deploy a variety of privacy technologies,and I’ve 
> observed recurring patterns of muddy thinking in their pushbacks; this draft 
> is an attempt to curate the arguments that are useful in these discussions, 
> independent of any particular flavor of privacy technology.

Ok, fair enough.  I think some more text is needed to make your points clear as 
it wasn't enough for me to see the direction you were heading.

Thanks,
Kathleen 
> 
>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Kathleen Moriarty 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hey,
>> 
>> As the draft stands now, it needs more detail and contributions to be 
>> helpful.  If folks are interested, please contribute.
>> 
>> IMO, It would have to be broken down further in terms of the types of 
>> encryption and cost/benefits.
>> 
>> For instance, KMIP (yes, I know this is not an IETF standard) is on an 
>> upswing.  So is the general statement on cost of PKI specific to transport 
>> encryption?  How does OS factor into this and help with the cost/benefit?  
>> We should know more soon through efforts like Let's Encrypt and Fedora 
>> having IPsec unauthenticated tunnel mode on by default (I think in version 
>> 23).
>> 
>> What requests are SPs getting in regard to encryption (transport, 
>> application data or data at rest) and what are the hurdles?
>> 
>> Operators may not be hanging out on this list, so maybe a post with the 
>> types if info you are looking for to build this out should go to opsawg with 
>> a pointer to the list you think this should be discussed on.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Kathleen
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> > On Mar 13, 2015, at 5:28 PM, Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> >> On 13/03/15 20:52, Tim Bray wrote:
>> >> This was about to expire so I was going to refresh it but uploader is
>> >> closed of course.  See
>> >> https://www.tbray.org/tmp/draft-bray-privacy-choices-01.html
>> >>
>> >> Just a reminder that if this group wants to do anything in this space, my
>> >> editorial services are available.
>> >
>> > I'd be interested in opinions as to how/whether we ought process
>> > this.
>> >
>> > Ta,
>> > S.
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
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