Re: IAB Statement on Internet Confidentiality

> On Nov 17, 2014, at 6:56 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
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> In message <5469EE2F.2020108@zinks.de>, Roland Zink writes:
> 
> Actually I think the most important part is this:
> 
>>>> Encryption
>>>> should be authenticated where possible, but even protocols providing
>>>> confidentiality without authentication are useful in the face of
>>>> pervasive surveillance as described in RFC 7258.
> 
> Will browsers finally stop treating self-signed-certs as if they
> were highly radioaktive ?

Even better would be to support anonymous ECDH. Why bother requiring all of these fake certs to be generated when they have no legit purpose.

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Jason T. Greene
WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
JBoss, a division of Red Hat

Received on Monday, 17 November 2014 18:10:20 UTC