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Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> Fri, 06 September 2013 03:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA
From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/09/2013 15:11, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> ...
> > S/MIME is almost what we need to secure email. What is missing is an
> > effective key discovery scheme. We could add that and add Ben Laurie's
> > Certificate Transparency and have a pretty good start on a PRISM Proof
> > email scheme.
>
> OK, that's actionable in the IETF, so can we see the I-D before
> the cutoff?


Yes, the ID should be out next week together with the request for a BOF on
PRISM Proof email which has a shorter fuse.




> > What we lack is not the technology, it is demand for deployment.
>
> Exactly, and that is not actionable in the IETF



On the contrary. taking advantage of a marketing opportunity is certainly
something the IETF can do.


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