Re: meeting ietf-legacy ssid

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I think that, as an experiment to see what the impact is, we should not have ietf-legacy at IETF99.

The IETF is telling the word it’s important to use encryption, we should be eating our own dog food.

Bob

> On Jul 11, 2017, at 7:20 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 12/07/2017 12:34, Randy Bush wrote:
>> the noc sees a quite large number of associations to the unencrypted
>> ietf-legacy ssid as opposed to say the encrypted ietf ssid
>> 
>> some of us are wondering if those using ietf-legacy
>> 
>>  o do not realize it is completely unencrypted over the air, or
>> 
>>  o don't care as their threat model sees runnin' nekkid over the air as
>>    not a significant additional weakness, or
> 
> If you don't feel that way, there are millions of networks you can never
> use, including most hotels, cafes etc.
> 
>>  o believe that they are using sufficient encryption at higher layers
>>    to meet their needs, or
> 
> If you believe that, you're probably wrong ;-)
> 
>>  o other
> 
> 1) For whatever reason my Android 4.3 phone has always seemed allergic
> to the ietf network (although after much torture, it agreed to connect
> to eduroam). So it only knows about ietf-legacy and ietf-hotel.
> 
> 2) On my laptop things are better, but I do have ietf-legacy lower in
> the list as a fallback.
> 
>> these days, some meetings do not provide unencrypted wifi at all and
>> seem not to get complaints.  maybe their attendees are just geekier
>> and/or more security conscious.
> 
> ...or they just don't care as long as it works. There's a lot of
> that about.
> 
> Jordi is correct about the ordering of SSIDs in the list kept by the
> o/s. If you don't manually push ietf-legacy down the list, it may well
> be picked automatically.
> 
>    Brian
> 

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