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RE: Security for various IETF services

Randall Gellens <randy@qti.qualcomm.com> Thu, 03 April 2014 23:31 UTC

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From: Randall Gellens <randy@qti.qualcomm.com>
Subject: RE: Security for various IETF services
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My reaction is also to ask "Why?"  Security and privacy involve 
trade-offs where various costs (including operational difficulty) are 
weighed against the benefits, such as protecting information from 
unauthorized disclosure or modification.  So, I'd suggest that a 
blanket statement isn't a good idea, but rather, a service-by-service 
decision should be made.  For example, XMPP and document submission 
may justify requiring encryption while email and document retrieval 
might not.

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Randall Gellens
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