Re: meeting ietf-legacy ssid

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On 7/12/17 1:30 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
> On 7/11/2017 5:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>    o don't care as their threat model sees runnin' nekkid over the air as
>>      not a significant additional weakness, or
>>
>>    o believe that they are using sufficient encryption at higher layers
>>      to meet their needs, or
> 
> 
> Given that it is likely that at least one of the 1200 open-participation
> IETF meeting attendees -- all of whom have access to the WiFi password
> -- sometimes indulges in bad actor behavior, then it might be worth
> clarifying exactly what the incremental benefit is, in having WiFi
> encryption, if one is already using TLS liberally.

wpa2 enterprise provides forward security, merely using the same
username and password doesn't provide you with the ability to snoop
other traffic.

> (For extra credit, it would be interesting to see where this benefit is
> already documented on the net.)
> 
> d/
> 


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