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

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Fri, 06 September 2013 03:28 UTC

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On 06/09/2013 15:11, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
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> S/MIME is almost what we need to secure email. What is missing is an
> effective key discovery scheme. We could add that and add Ben Laurie's
> Certificate Transparency and have a pretty good start on a PRISM Proof
> email scheme.

OK, that's actionable in the IETF, so can we see the I-D before
the cutoff?

> 
> What we lack is not the technology, it is demand for deployment. 

Exactly, and that is not actionable in the IETF.

    Brian