[Cryptography] Certificates and PKI

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Sat Dec 27 14:49:33 EST 2014


On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Paul Wouters <paul at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:

> You are confusing "opoprtunistic encryption" with "anonymous
> encryption". If it is opportunistic, it does not mean that there was no
> authentication. It just means it was not a pre-configured trust.


Every IETF draft I've read on the matter describes it as opportunistic
encryption, so I think you're the one that's confused

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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