Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-15 Thread Tobias Gondrom
On 06/09/13 14:45, Scott Brim wrote: I wouldn't focus on government surveillance per se. The IETF should consider that breaking privacy is much easier than it used to be, particularly given consolidation of services at all layers, and take that into account in our engineering best practices.

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-08 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, September 06, 2013 17:11 +0100 Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote: John C Klensin j...@jck.com wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that DANE-like approaches are significantly better than traditional PKI ones only to the extent to which: ... Yes, but there

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread t . p .
- Original Message - From: Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com To: Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com Cc: IETF Discussion Mailing List ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 4:56 AM On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.comwrote: On Fri,

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Pete Resnick
On 9/6/13 12:54 AM, t.p. wrote: - Original Message - From: Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com Cc: IETF Discussion Mailing List ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 4:56 AM The design I think is practical is to eliminate all UI issues by insisting that encryption and

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Scott Brim
I wouldn't focus on government surveillance per se. The IETF should consider that breaking privacy is much easier than it used to be, particularly given consolidation of services at all layers, and take that into account in our engineering best practices. Our mission is to make the Internet

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, September 06, 2013 06:20 -0700 Pete Resnick presn...@qti.qualcomm.com wrote: Actually, I disagree that this fallacy is at play here. I think we need to separate the concept of end-to-end encryption from authentication when it comes to UI transparency. We design UIs now where we

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Tony Finch
Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: Speaking of which, Jim Gettys was trying to tell me yesterday that BIND refuses to do DNSSEC lookups until the endpoint client has generated a certificate. That is wrong. DNSSEC validation affects a whole view - i.e. it is effectively global. Clients can

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 03:26:42PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: Speaking of which, Jim Gettys was trying to tell me yesterday that BIND refuses to do DNSSEC lookups until the endpoint client has generated a certificate. That is wrong. DNSSEC validation

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Pete Resnick
On 9/6/13 7:02 AM, John C Klensin wrote: ...It may still be good protection against more casual attacks, but we do the users the same disservice by telling them that their transmissions are secure under those circumstances that we do by telling them that their data are secure when they see a

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 06:20:48AM -0700, Pete Resnick wrote: In email, we insist that you authenticate the recipient's certificate before we allow you to install it and to start encrypting, and prefer to send things in the clear until that is done. That's silly and is based on the

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-09-06, at 10:16, Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 06:20:48AM -0700, Pete Resnick wrote: In email, we insist that you authenticate the recipient's certificate before we allow you to install it and to start encrypting, and prefer to send things in the clear

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Scott Brim
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Pete Resnick presn...@qti.qualcomm.com wrote: OK, one last nostalgic anecdote about Eudora before I go back to finishing my spfbis Last Call writeup: MacTCP (the TCP/IP stack for the original MacOS) required a handler routine for ICMP messages for some dumb

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, September 06, 2013 08:41 -0700 Pete Resnick presn...@qti.qualcomm.com wrote: ... Absolutely. There is clearly a good motivation: A particular UI choice should not *constrain* a protocol, so it is essential that we make sure that the protocol is not *dependent* on the UI. But

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, September 06, 2013 07:38 -0700 Pete Resnick presn...@qti.qualcomm.com wrote: Actually, I think the latter is really what I'm suggesting. We've got do the encryption (for both the minimal protection from passive attacks as well as setting things up for doing good security

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Brian Trammell
hi Scott, all, On Sep 6, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't focus on government surveillance per se. The IETF should consider that breaking privacy is much easier than it used to be, particularly given consolidation of services at all layers, and take that

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, September 06, 2013 10:43 -0400 Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: Can someone please tell me that BIND isn't being this stupid? This thread has mainly been about privacy and confidentiality. There is nothing in DNSSEC that offers either of those, directly (although it's an

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Pete Resnick
On 9/6/13 8:23 AM, John C Klensin wrote: I think that one of the more important things we can do is to rethink UIs to give casual users more information about what it going on and to enable them to take intelligent action on decisions that should be under their control. There are good reasons

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Tony Finch
John C Klensin j...@jck.com wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that DANE-like approaches are significantly better than traditional PKI ones only to the extent to which: - The entities needing or generating the certificates are significantly more in control

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to savingthe Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Pete Resnick presn...@qti.qualcomm.comwrote: On 9/6/13 12:54 AM, t.p. wrote: - Original Message - From: Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com Cc: IETF Discussion Mailing List ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 4:56 AM The design I think