RE: [saag] Adept Encryption: Was: DANE should be more prominent (Re: Review of: Opportunistic Security -03 preview for comment)

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no, it's at encyption above a baseline. assume mitm can't crack maximum level,,but can crack baseline and above. if maximum can't be negotiated because mitm prevents it , and less is settled for... well. may as well have fallen back to clear.

Lloyd Wood
http://about.me/lloydwood
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From: Nico Williams <nico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, 22 August 2014 3:42:15 PM
To: Wood L  Dr (Electronic Eng)
Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx; saag@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [saag] Adept Encryption: Was: DANE should be more prominent (Re: Review of: Opportunistic Security -03 preview for comment)

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:25 AM,  <l.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Okay, so with opportunistic security, all a man in the middle has to do is block any communications he can't decrypt, and it automatically downgrades to select something he can break?
>
> Ah, there's the opportunity. Got it.

Eh?  The idea is to be downgrade resistant.

Nico
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