Re: [Int-area] draft-learmonth-intarea-rfc1226-bis-00

Derek Fawcus <dfawcus+lists-int-area@employees.org> Tue, 02 June 2020 09:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] draft-learmonth-intarea-rfc1226-bis-00
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On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 08:16:31PM +0100, Iain R. Learmonth wrote:
> 
> I do not want to forbid the use of non-NULL encryption. This phrasing
> may also be misleading as RFC4543 also provides encryption transforms
> that do not provide confidentiality. Instead of talking about NULL
> specifically, this could be changed to require use of a transform that
> does not provide confidentiality.

Given the general 'no encryption' rule for HAM transmissions, how about
making use of WESP (RFC 5840) when traversing an amateur RF link,
and ESP when going over other links with non-NULL encryption?

That would then explicitly signal that the payload is not encrypted,  and
allow for easy non heuristic based extraction of the payload.

DF