[ih] IETF relevance (was Memories of Flag Day?)

[Frantisek Borsik]

DSA, DMA, DSM... GDPR in the past, or even that horrible CRA = Cyber
Resilience Act are just a continued long list of garbage ideas out of
Brussels.

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/10/the-eus-proposed-cyber-resilience-act-will-damage-the-open-source-ecosystem/
https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/open-source-software-vs-the-cyber-resilience-act/

Good intentions don't count, bad results do. Most of the evil in this world
is done by people with good intentions.

All the best,

Frank

Frantisek (Frank) Borsik



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On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 2:31 PM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 9/5/2023 9:36 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> > My email program claims to have the ability to handle encrypted email,
> > cryptographically verified signatures, certificates, and such, and
> > there are lots of RFCs/Standards describing mechanisms for secure
> > email.   I don't know why none of my legal, medical, or financial
> > providers chose to use such "on the shelf" technologies.
>
> Other than for transit-level email authentication crypto -- working at
> domain name level -- email-based encryption has been unable to scale.
> So, yes, your software includes those functions, but no, they are not
> deemed viable for serious communications at scale.
>
> Hence some environments choose messaging functions that they can operate
> solely under their control.  (They rely on https for that 'at scale'
> part of crypto.)
>
> d/
>
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