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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 21:38 UTC

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On Feb 3, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:

> I understand that the purpose of the draft is not to document technical
> mechanisms for doing this opportunistic encryption, but i can't help
> trying to think through how it would work for HTTPS (i note that SMTP
> already has a mechanism, more people just need to turn it on).

The HTTP people should define "how it would work for HTTPS" (from the charter, HTTP 1.1 only), and the SMTP people should define "how it would work for SMTP".

The purpose of this document is to give them a single model of "opportunistic encryption using TLS" to work from for their definition.

> It occurs to me that one possibility is that user agents . . .

There are many possibilities, and at least one should be defined in this WG for each of the protocols listed in our charter (and maybe more). However, this document should not attempt to cover them all or it will literally never be finished.

--Paul Hoffman

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