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Re: [saag] Adept Encryption: Was: DANE should be more prominent (Re: Review of: Opportunistic Security -03 preview for comment)

2014-08-22 00:42:44
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:25 AM,  <l(_dot_)wood(_at_)surrey(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> 
wrote:
Okay, so with opportunistic security, all a man in the middle has to do is 
block any communications he can't decrypt, and it automatically downgrades to 
select something he can break?

Ah, there's the opportunity. Got it.

Eh?  The idea is to be downgrade resistant.

Nico
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