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Re: how bad is IPETEE?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Rescorla)
Wed Jul 16 10:50:56 2008
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:42:56 -0700
From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@networkresonance.com>
To: "Leichter, Jerry" <leichter_jerrold@emc.com>
Cc: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>,
Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.61.0807151829020.1009@mental>
At Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:33:10 -0400 (EDT),
Leichter, Jerry wrote:
> For an interesting discussion of IPETEE, see:
>
> www.educatedguesswork.org/moveabletype/archives/2008/07/ipetee.html
>
> Brief summary: This is an initial discussion - the results of a
> drinking session - that got leaked as an actual proposal. The
> guys behind it are involved with The Pirate Bay. The goal is
> to use some form of opportunistic encryption to make as much
> Internet traffic as possible encrypted as quickly as possible -
> which puts all kinds of constraints on a solution, which in
> turn also necessarily weakens the solution (e.g., without some
> required configuration, there's no way you can avoid MITM
> attacks) and forces odd compromises.
I also have a followup post at:
http://www.educatedguesswork.org/movabletype/archives/2008/07/more_on_ipetee.html
-Ekr
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