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

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Fri, 06 September 2013 13:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA
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On 9/6/13 3:04 PM, Martin Sustrik wrote:
> So, what if an NSA guys comes in and proposes backdoor to be added to
> a protocol? Is it even a valid interest? Does IETF as an organisation
> have anything to say about that or does it remain strictly neutral?
>
It's happened before and we as a community have said no.  See RFC 2804.

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