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Re: [MLS] Stupidest possible message protection

"Katriel Cohn-Gordon" <me@katriel.co.uk> Mon, 03 December 2018 21:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [MLS] Stupidest possible message protection
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I think "clients choose" != "users choose" --- rather, whoever builds
this into their application makes the choice for their users in the
client code.

On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, at 9:10 PM, Russ Housley wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Dec 3, 2018, at 10:46 AM, Raphael Robert
>> <raphael=40wire.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:>> 
>> I agree with Richard that letting clients choose is a good idea. I
>> think that for the sake of simplicity clients should choose whether
>> to encrypt HS messages or not right at group creation> 
> It is not clear to me how a user would make that choice.  They do not
> really have much visibility into the consequences of the choice.  So,
> it would be good for this group to make to choice or provide a concise
> description of those consequences in language a user might find
> helpful.> 
> Russ
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