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

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Mon, 01 June 2015 20:13 UTC

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Just to put on record: I disagree with Niels and agree with the IESG. 
Encryption everywhere is good.

Once a connection is encrypted and certificate-protected, a whole class 
of worries can be removed from the threat models; having fewer things to 
worry about is great when designing protocol stacks.

The only issue I have with the document is that "great-cannon" is 
spelled as "great-canon" once.

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