Ben,
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
Note, in many cases what we have is "authenticated sessions". Not
all protocols are "connection oriented", and notably TLS supports
session resumption. So "authenticated connection" is perhaps not
optimal. I had used "authenticated encrypted communication" as
suggested, but will see whether that is still needed after further
suggested revisions.
I agree that non-connection-oriented protocols can cause confusion here,
so "authenticated sessions" may be better.
I used the term "communication" since it could encompass e-mail, not
only sessions. Admittedly, we are focusing on realtime communication,
but it seems prudent to not be unduly exclusive in the range of
protocols that we try to address.
Steve