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

Alan Johnston <alan.b.johnston@gmail.com> Fri, 06 September 2013 13:02 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 Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net
> wrote:

> On 06.09.2013 13:30, Stewart Bryant wrote:
>
>> Tell me what the IETF could be doing that it isn't already doing.
>>
> It really depends where you see the boundaries of the IETF.
>
> For some the IETF only produces documents and that's it. Clearly, we have
> a lot of specification work ongoing in different areas that helps to
> mitigate various security vulnerabilities. This ranges from recent work on
> XMPP end-to-end security (as in http://tools.ietf.org/html/**
> draft-miller-3923bis-02<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-miller-3923bis-02>)
> all the way to the recent RTCWEB discussions on using DTLS-SRTP as a key
> management protocol.
>

If we took protection against MitM attacks seriously, we would be using
ZRTP for RTCWEB instead of DTLS-SRTP.  See

     http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-johnston-rtcweb-zrtp

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