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Re: [TLS] chairs - please shutdown wiretapping discussion...

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 10 July 2017 21:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] chairs - please shutdown wiretapping discussion...
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On 10/07/17 22:26, Russ Housley wrote:
> Stephen:
> 
>> And to avoid a repeat of Russ' failed justification, many protocols
>> use and depend on TLS where the entity controlling the TLS server
>> private key materials is not the higher layer sender or receiver,
>> so all four points in the definition in 2804 are fully met by your
>> wiretapping scheme.
> 
> It is clear that you do not agree with the reasoning that I posted on
> Friday.  Some people do, and clearly, others do not.
> 
> So, I failed to convince you.  However, you have also failed to
> convince me that the proposal is wiretapping under the definition in
> RFC 2804, Section 3.

Consider SMTP/TLS. Where one MTA on the path supports this.
Say it's one operated by an anti-spam company for example.
That is clearly not the sender nor recipient.

That meets all 4 points in 2804, right?

S.

> 
> Russ
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