Re: Call for Adoption: Encrypted Content Encoding

On 8 December 2015 at 18:16, Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> wrote:
> Stating that "clients might need to use other means of protection..."
> addresses  the latter architectural statement without acknowledging the
> former.  We need to go just a bit further and simply state that "all systems
> that receive the encrypted object are advised to take what precautions they
> can to have some confidence that the object is free of malware."   And then
> I would suggest several examples are in order, so as not to be too opaque.

Yeah, I'm totally on board with that.

Your point regarding "intermediary" is well-taken.  It was just a
convenient handle.

Received on Tuesday, 8 December 2015 20:40:00 UTC