Subject: RE: [Raven] Comments on Draft -- Take 2

From: Chris Savage <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:51:17 -0500

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben Laurie [mailto:[email-masked]]
>Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 7:29 PM
>To: Chris Savage
>Cc: IETF Wiretapping List (E-mail)
>Subject: Re: [Raven] Comments on Draft -- Take 2
>
>
>Various People wrote:
>
>> The IETF ... believes that the
>> operation of the Internet and the needs of its users are 
>best served by
>> making sure the security properties of connections across 
>the Internet are
>> as well known as possible.
>
>This keeps niggling at me. Surely if Internet connections were certain
>to be completely insecure (i.e. any interested party could 
>intercept the
>plaintext of any connection) then this requirement would be satisfied?
>But it seems clear to me that such a situation would not even remotely
>be in the best interests of the Internet's users.

As far as I know, the "connections" aren't generally "secure" and it would
be extremely hard to make them so.  And if, for example, it were true that
every packet sent anywhere on the net were stored in some public data file,
then it would plainly be in the interests of users to have that level of
(in)security widely and fully understood.  And doesn't RFC 1984 go to the
heart of the matter wrt encryption?

Chris S.

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