On Nov 6, 2013, at 9:26 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > If that were the problem we are addressing, the best answer would involve RFC 6920. No, that's not what I want, although it is a neat hack. > For privacy, though, STASI*) should not be able to find out that I’m retrieving RFC 1984 so that they can't identify me as a long-haired bomb-throwing leftist (or whatever retrieving RFC 1984 makes you in their minds). If you want encryption, definitely you should be able to get it, and indeed with ietf.org, you can.