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Re: [Uta] opportunistic keying / encryption considered of dubious value

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 17 March 2014 13:55 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
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> But the lack of authentication shouldn't prevent us from encrypting anyway, because cleartext is always worse.

You're not worried about imbuing a false sense of security?

> Gosh, that was easy.

Maybe not.

	/r$

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