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Re: breaking TLS (Was: Re: multiplexing -- don't do it)

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Fri, 06 April 2012 20:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: breaking TLS (Was: Re: multiplexing -- don't do it)
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On 04/06/2012 09:29 PM, Roberto Peon wrote:
> doesn't breach the user's
> trust without the user's knowledge.

Ideas for how to do that welcome;-)

Its UI stuff (and hence not an IETF thing really), but afaik,
we've (tech industry generally) failed miserably in informing
end-users about TLS.

Its not something we should try solve here, or construct
pre-conditions from, but equally we should be skeptical of
solutions where a well-informed end-user is needed. (And
that's implicit in some of the recent discussions here.)

S.

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