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Re: [dane] [saag] Need better opportunistic terminology

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 12 March 2014 20:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dane] [saag] Need better opportunistic terminology
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Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org> wrote:
    >> Why not just use the term "unauthenticated encryption", when that's
    >> exactly what's happening?

    > There is such a thing as authenticated encryption[1], as in AES GCM for
    > instance, and what we're doing here is not its opposite.  Thus, I think
    > calling this "unauthenticated encryption" would be a bad idea.

+1
and, the privacy that results from the encryption, while the primary carrot,
is simply the result of finding a way to do a DH operation.  The part that
we are all discussing is determining how (much) to trust the DH results.

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