Re: [Patient] [saag] Internet Draft posted as requested -

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 18 December 2017 00:23 UTC

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Diego,

I generally disagree with some of your earlier points where
you disagree with me:-) I do agree that there are hard
problems with updates and bugs in general for endpoints and
devices in the middle. I don't agree that breaking TLS or
HTTPs is a viable way to improve that, It'd make it worse.
But rather than repeat things I've said to you in person
before, for this threat, maybe it is work saying that the
proponent here claimed to be interested in a new multiparty
security protocol (in the mailing list description) which
could have been a worthy, if unlikely to succeed endeavour.
In Singapore, I concluded that they are primarily or maybe
only interested in the web as used by people and in mitm'ing
that. So personally I think the separate mailing list would
be better closed down as it seems to have been started on
the basis of some confusion wrt folks' goals.

On 17/12/17 23:19, Diego R. Lopez wrote:
> 
> I am afraid I don’t follow you here… What do you mean by “random
> name/address that claims to be “good””? Given there are appropriate
> roots of trust, how is this “random” trust different from the
> certificate verification process in TLS?
The difference in the above context is the the proponents
here want TTPs that tell lies all the time, and that are
so wide-spread and not well-known that they appear to the
endpoints indistinguishable from a random router. The public
Web PKI TTPs we have are far from perfect but at least they
don't do that so far.

There also appears to be some magical thinking that allows
some proponents to say that they think these new lies can
benefit the user and give the user more control. I have no
clue how that can reflect a genuine technical opinion.

S.