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

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Fri, 22 August 2014 05:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] Adept Encryption: Was: DANE should be more prominent (Re: Review of: Opportunistic Security -03 preview for comment)
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:25 AM,  <l.wood@surrey.ac.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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