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Re: [Cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Wed Jan 15 23:59:18 2014
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:30:51 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 2014-01-15 21:15, ianG wrote:
> The IETF cannot be presented with a position paper describing the
> problem because the IETF is part of the problem, and nobody wants to
> hear it who has already taken the investment to participate.
What he said!
Opportunistic encryption everywhere would force attackers to use
active attacks. Active attacks can be detected. Large powerful
organizations are likely to be reluctant to use active attacks too
widely, because they do not want their activities to be observed. The
more powerful the organization, the more valuable information about
that organization is to its enemies, thus the more costly are active
attacks.
Thus, if opportunistic encryption everywhere, the NSA would likely
limit itself to active attacks on people named Mohammed.
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