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RE: Security for various IETF services

<l.wood@surrey.ac.uk> Fri, 04 April 2014 00:48 UTC

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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 01:47:03 +0100
Subject: RE: Security for various IETF services
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"because we blew it way back when, by designing a completely insecure
and un-private internet"

That was not a mistake. That is what made adoption possible.

DTN started with security from the get-go, and DTN has gone nowhere.

Lloyd Wood
http://about.me/lloydwood
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From: Randy Bush [randy@psg.com]
Sent: 04 April 2014 01:29
To: Wood L  Dr (Electronic Eng)
Cc: IETF Disgust
Subject: Re: Security for various IETF services

> "It would be good to see the excellent work of Dukhovni and Parsons extended
> to include authentication of sending servers (clients) to support federation. "
>
> Why?

because we blew it way back when, by designing a completely insecure
and un-private internet.  as supposedly responsible and occasionally
competent engineers, we should rectify our mistakes.

the internet is not an experimental plaything.

randy

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