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Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)


From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 14:20:36 -0300

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf () dessus com> wrote:


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.


Actually, starting July Chrome will no longer say "secure" for sites with
Transport Security. It will only say "not secure" for sites without, so it
will no longer provide the false impression of equating Transport Security
with Application/Operational Security.


Rubens


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