[Cryptography] The role of the IETF in security of the Internet: for or against the NSA? for or against the security of users of the net?

[ianG]

On 19/07/2014 20:26 pm, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> 
>> There is really no problem with a trusted proxy, the question is
>> whether the proxy is trustworthy or not. Consider the following
>> possibilities:
> 
> At the risk of getting my head bitten off for stating the obvious, it 
> might be worth demonstrating the difference between a trustworthy system 
> and a trusted system rather more succintly:
> 
> A trustworthy system is one that you *can* trust; a trusted system is one 
> that you *have* to trust.


This has never been obvious, at least not to the IETF WGs, or more
broadly I suspect, any committee approach.



iang