Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

Wed May 30 20:51:46 UTC 2018

*nods* The whole concept of SSL all of the things is severely misplaced... and the thread I caught exemplifies why. 

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From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf at dessus.com> 
To: nanog at nanog.org 
Cc: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net> 
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2018 11:55:21 AM 
Subject: RE: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?) 

>I'm also not foolish enough to think this thread will affect the 
>encrypt-everything crowd as it is more of a religion\ideology than a 
>practical matter. However, maybe it'll shed some light on technical 
>ways of dealing with this at the service-provider level or plant some 
>doubt in someone's mind the next time they think they need to encrypt 
>non-sensitive information. 

Good Luck, especially in light of the poo-for-brains at Google responsible for the Chrome browser who (wrongly) equate "secure" with Transport Encryption and "unsecure" with not having Transport Encryption; when all that Transport Encryption really implies is Transport Encryption and not much else. It has little to do with whether or not a site is "secure". Generally speaking, I have found that sites engaging Transport Security are much more "unsecure" (as in subject to security breaches and flaws) than those that do not engage Transport Security for no reason. 

However, the poo-for-brains crowd will get everyone to engage Transport Security so the will be called "Secure", whether trustworthy or not. 

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