Re: breaking TLS (Was: Re: multiplexing -- don't do it)

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Stephen Farrell
<stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>wrote:

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> On 04/06/2012 09:29 PM, Roberto Peon wrote:
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>> doesn't breach the user's
>> trust without the user's knowledge.
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> Ideas for how to do that welcome;-)
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I'l be submitting a draft sometime next week about all of this, hopefully.


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> Its UI stuff (and hence not an IETF thing really), but afaik,
> we've (tech industry generally) failed miserably in informing
> end-users about TLS.


> Its not something we should try solve here, or construct
> pre-conditions from, but equally we should be skeptical of
> solutions where a well-informed end-user is needed. (And
> that's implicit in some of the recent discussions here.)
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Ah... I sometimes use user and useragent interchangably, when they're not.
:/
I expect to have the site be able to state its policy in a way which is not
easily spoofed by a proxy, and then to have the UA act upon that policy in
some reasonable way (where the definition of reasonable changes depending
on the scheme of the URL).

-=R


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