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Re: Proposed Statement on "HTTPS everywhere for the IETF"

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Mon, 01 June 2015 20:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: Proposed Statement on "HTTPS everywhere for the IETF"
From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
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On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think this is reasonable. However, it seems necessary to qualify it
> by pointing out that users of HTTPS remain exposed to traffic analysis
> (e.g. see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.0297).
>

Agreed.

But I would add a note to say that blocking traffic analysis is something
that requires link layer encryption. I don't think we can do much to
prevent that type of attack in IETF but we could stir IEEE to do something
useful.

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