how bad is IPETEE?

[Eric Rescorla]

At Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:33:10 -0400 (EDT),
Leichter, Jerry wrote:
> For an interesting discussion of IPETEE, see:
> 
> www.educatedguesswork.org/moveabletype/archives/2008/07/ipetee.html
> 
> Brief summary:  This is an initial discussion - the results of a
> drinking session - that got leaked as an actual proposal.  The
> guys behind it are involved with The Pirate Bay.  The goal is
> to use some form of opportunistic encryption to make as much
> Internet traffic as possible encrypted as quickly as possible -
> which puts all kinds of constraints on a solution, which in
> turn also necessarily weakens the solution (e.g., without some
> required configuration, there's no way you can avoid MITM
> attacks) and forces odd compromises.

I also have a followup post at:
http://www.educatedguesswork.org/movabletype/archives/2008/07/more_on_ipetee.html

-Ekr

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