Dnia 2015-11-09, pon o godzinie 17:33 -0500, Travis Burtrum pisze:
> That seems like a ridiculous question to me.  If not, why even bother
> with STARTTLS/TLS in the first place?  It *could* be used for
> circumventing security policies after all.

Your own words from the XEP:
"at least equal and perhaps increased security and privacy over using
STARTTLS. It also provides an easy way for clients to bypass
restrictive firewalls that only allow HTTPS, and for servers to host
multiple protocols/services on a single port"

I'm pointing that:
- designing to bypass security policies may not be a well received
reasoning
- hosting multiple protocols on a single port is a job of protocol
level multiplexer - standard _tcp records are just fine here
- if your admin wants to block you on protocol level (not simple port
blocking), it is just as "trivial" to target DNS, ALPN etc. as to
target XMPP protocol blocking

Could you elaborate how TLS instead of STARTTLS may perhaps increase
security, as this is not clear to me?


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