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[saag] keys under doormats: is our doormat ok?

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Sun, 12 July 2015 12:58 UTC

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Subject: [saag] keys under doormats: is our doormat ok?
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Hiya,

I'm sure a bunch of you have seen [1] and various reports of
potential government silliness that presumably prompted that.
So I just re-read RFC1984 [2] and I think it still does a good
enough job of setting out the IETF's position on the topic.

Since that RFC is almost 20 years old, I thought I'd check on
here if folks think anything more needs to be done in the IETF.
If there were, then it'd be timely to talk about that in Prague.

However, I think we're ok already thanks to RFC1984 but please
do say if you think something more needs to be done in the IETF.
(More no doubt needs to be done outside the IETF context, but
I'm not asking about that.)

Thanks,
S.

[1]
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97690/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2015-026.pdf
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1984

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