Re: [rtcweb] Encryption mandate

Christopher Blizzard <blizzard@mozilla.com> Thu, 08 September 2011 04:06 UTC

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On 9/7/2011 5:14 PM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
> Its going to be hard work to figure out what can both be reliably 
> reported to users and also be understandable and meaningful to users.

Indeed.  It suffers from the same problem that self-signed certs suffer 
from.  That is, you can't guarantee end to end encryption unless you 
know who you are talking to.  And in our current system requires 3rd 
party signings to do that, which as we've seen over the last couple of 
weeks is not always...great.

Do we want to try and tackle that here?  (I'm guessing not!)

--Chris