[AusNOG] Consensus from the IETF 88 Technical Plenary - Internet hardening

[Geordie Guy]

Gross overreaction?  I'm curious to hear more about how a national scale
warrantless surveillance system, the bugging of the phone of foreign heads
of state and the hacking of some of the Internet's most important company's
datacenter interconnects doesn't warrant encryption.  What do you think
would've been an appropriate response?  No ice cream after dinner and
straight to bed?


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:

>
> On Nov 8, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:
>
> > I can't say I'm disappointed in this resolution. Should have happened a
> long time ago.
>
> The problem with overencryption of this magnitude is that besides the
> additional overhead, it makes dealing with DDoS attacks and other security
> issues considerably more difficult in terms of detection, classification,
> traceback, and mitigation, not to mention broadening the attack surface and
> providing a non-insignficant impact amplification, due to crypto overhead.
>
> On top of that, it's useless - the spooks and spies (not to mention the
> ODCs) simply bypass it all and get everything en clair from the endpoints
> themselves.
>
> This is a bad move; a gross over-reaction that, if implemented (which I
> doubt it will be), will degrade the overall security posture of the
> Internet to a significant degree.
>
> There are no technical solutions to social ills.  If this comes to pass,
> we will all regret it.
>
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