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Re: [Uta] Proposed definition of opportunistic encryption using TLS: draft-hoffman-uta-opportunistic-tls-00.txt

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Mon, 03 February 2014 21:46 UTC

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On Feb 3, 2014, at 1:42 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:

> By "fail" i meant "not protect the user's confidentiality or
> authenticity".  I did not mean "cause the connection to fail".

Ah, good. That's exactly right. And it's also why I didn't talk about TLS failing in the document. :-)

--Paul Hoffman

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