Bruce might not know that we have already various activities ongoing. I
just recently produced a short writeup about the efforts related to this
topic ongoing at the last IETF meeting on my blog:
http://www.tschofenig.priv.at/wp/?p=993
Ciao
Hannes
On 06.09.2013 03:17, Dean Willis wrote:
This is bigger than the "perpass" list.
I suggested that the surveillance/broken crypto challenge represents "damage to the
Internet". I'm not the only one thinking that way.
I'd like to share the challenge raised by Bruce Schneier in:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying
To quote:
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We need to know how exactly how the NSA and other agencies are subverting
routers, switches, the internet backbone, encryption technologies and cloud
systems. I already have five stories from people like you, and I've just
started collecting. I want 50. There's safety in numbers, and this form of
civil disobedience is the moral thing to do.
Two, we can design. We need to figure out how to re-engineer the internet to
prevent this kind of wholesale spying. We need new techniques to prevent
communications intermediaries from leaking private information.
We can make surveillance expensive again. In particular, we need open protocols, open
implementations, open systems – these will be harder for the NSA to subvert.
The Internet Engineering Task Force, the group that defines the standards that
make the internet run, has a meeting planned for early November in Vancouver.
This group needs dedicate its next meeting to this task. This is an emergency,
and demands an emergency response.
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The gauntlet is in our face. What are we going to do about it?
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Dean Willis