On 6 Dec 2013, at 8:31 pm, t.p. <daedulus(_at_)btconnect(_dot_)com> wrote:
I oppose publication of this I-D by the IETF.
The point has already been that better defences against monitoring
likely means greater use of encryption and encryption is at times
harmful.
…
Encryption has its dangers and the IETF should not be encouraging its
widespread adoption.
The strings “encryption” and “encrypt” doesn’t appear in the draft; the closest
it comes is the reference to RFC1984, whose name includes “crypt”.
Cheers,
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Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/