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Re: [TLS] The risk of misconfiguration

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@polarssl.org> Thu, 08 May 2014 18:12 UTC

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From: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@polarssl.org>
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On 08/05/2014 19:03, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> On 08/05/14 09:28, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
>> Side note: it seems to me that perpass is short for pervasive passive
>> (surveillance).
> 
> I wouldn't sweat about that term. Its just the imperfect name
> I made up for a mailing list back last summer. It does get used
> sometimes as a shorthand when we probably would be better saying
> something longer that uses the term pervasive monitoring, (which
> is not just passive as you point out) but that's ok for list
> discussion.
> 
Ok, thanks for this precision.

Manuel.

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