At 12:00 PM -0500 11/10/07, Jonathan Rosenberg wrote:
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>The customers of our protocols are the enterprises and service providers that
>deploy them.
They may be among the customers of our protocols, but they are neither the
only customers nor the most important ones. We build end-to-end protocols;
in this case, one which enables person-to-person communications over
extremely varied infrastructures. If we do not keep that in mind and deliver
a protocol that enables that person-to-person communication to be secure,
our reasoning for that protocol choice will not matter. We will have failed
our main customer.
Yes, the features may be rarely used, and many end-user customers may neither
know nor care that they are even available. But there are customers
who would use them if available, and there may well be more as the
feature gets easier to use and the need more evident. If we do not
build the system with *them* in mind, who will?
You argue that LI will exist, like it or not. I don't think anyone here is
blind
to that reality. But there is a serious difference between designing a system
which maximizes the security of its end users, knowing that there are mechanisms
which may still compromise it, and designing a system to be palatable to those
who intend to. There are increasing numbers of governments who treat any
attempt to maintain personal privacy as thwarting their security interests,
rather than seeing maintaining their citizens' privacy interests as part of
their duty.
I have no interest in making their bites at our privacy palatable, and I have no
interest in pretending otherwise.
Again, this is my personal view, and not meant in any way as disrespect to you,
regards,
Ted Hardie
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