Re: [saag] Last Call: <draft-dukhovni-opportunistic-security-01.txt> (Opportunistic Security: some protection most of the time) to Informational RFC

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On 30 July 2014 08:54, Stephen Kent <kent@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would say:
> "OS strives to greatly broaden the use of encryption in IETF protocols,
> to combat PM. To facilitate incremental deployment, OS operates in
> a fashion that may result in a plaintext connection/session."

That's a good description of OE, but wasn't the whole point of using
OS as the term to cover other opportunistic mechanisms, like maybe
opportunistic authentication (which I just invented, but I hope is
self-explanatory).





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