On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 03:03:26PM +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
- Rene Struik is concerned that opportunistic security might
lead to a reduction in protection against active attacks,
I too had this concern. For me the key is that looking forward to a
DANE-like world we get secure discovery of services' ability to
authenticate. By "secure discovery" I mean: no downgrade attacks.
Rene's concern however is partly about people getting a false sense of
security and not bothering with anything else once they have
unauthenticated encryption everywhere. However, I think DANE is much
more likely to gain momentum than people are to think they have security
against active attacks without it.
Nico
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