Re: [saag] Comments on draft-ietf-tsvwg-transport-encrypt-08.txt

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 11 November 2019 05:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [saag] Comments on draft-ietf-tsvwg-transport-encrypt-08.txt
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On 2019-11-10 1:40 a.m., Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> People have asked me for an infographic to illustrate my point. Well I
> only have text here.
>
> Encryption is like a too-short blanket when you are trying to sleep in
> bed. If you pull it up over your shoulders, you get cold toes. If you
> cover your feet, the rest of you gets cold. There is nowhere that you
> can put that blanket that is going to keep all of you warm and they
> only come in one size. So what you need is more blankets.

That's an interesting analogy, and maybe it's the start a good infographic.
But, can you please map this to our world?  What does it mean today pull
the blanket up over your shoulders, and how does that reveal the feet?

> If we only have one layer of encryption for headers and payload, it is
> all or nothing. If the payload is encrypted inside the encrypted
> transport, we can strip off the transport encryption with much less risk.

Agreed, I get this.

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>
> And that is part of what we will be discussing in the MATHMESH BOF in
> the first session of the first day in Singapore.
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