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Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 08:02:34
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Hannes Tschofenig 
<hannes(_dot_)tschofenig(_at_)gmx(_dot_)net
wrote:

On 06.09.2013 13:30, Stewart Bryant wrote:

Tell me what the IETF could be doing that it isn't already doing.

It really depends where you see the boundaries of the IETF.

For some the IETF only produces documents and that's it. Clearly, we have
a lot of specification work ongoing in different areas that helps to
mitigate various security vulnerabilities. This ranges from recent work on
XMPP end-to-end security (as in http://tools.ietf.org/html/**
draft-miller-3923bis-02<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-miller-3923bis-02>)
all the way to the recent RTCWEB discussions on using DTLS-SRTP as a key
management protocol.


If we took protection against MitM attacks seriously, we would be using
ZRTP for RTCWEB instead of DTLS-SRTP.  See

     http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-johnston-rtcweb-zrtp

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