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Re: [Ace] Adoption of Low Latency Group Communication Security Work in ACE

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Mon, 25 July 2016 18:23 UTC

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From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:23:00 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Ace] Adoption of Low Latency Group Communication Security Work in ACE
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On 7/25/16 8:07 PM, Michael StJohns wrote:
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> The receiver has no guaranteed way of knowing whether or not ANY group
> member is compromised so the authentication is pretty much meaningless.

I would just add that it is also more difficult to determine just which
device has been broken into after the fact.

Eliot

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