Fwd: RFC 7624 on Confidentiality in the Face of Pervasive Surveillance: A Threat Model and Problem Statement

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Agree. Very interesting and significant Avri.

Anriette


On 22/08/2015 18:32, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
> +1 this will indeed be enlightening and educating to internet users.
> 
> Thanks for sharing.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Sent from my Asus Zenfone2
> Kindly excuse brevity and typos.
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> On 22 Aug 2015 15:15, "Avri Doria" <avri at acm.org <mailto:avri at acm.org>>
> wrote:
> 
>     Thought this might be interesting/useful to several efforts.
> 
>     avri
> 
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>     -------- Forwarded Message --------
>     Subject: RFC 7624 on Confidentiality in the Face of Pervasive
>     Surveillance: A Threat Model and Problem Statement
>     Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:34:38 -0700 (PDT)
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>             RFC 7624
> 
>             Title:      Confidentiality in the Face of
>                         Pervasive Surveillance: A Threat Model and
>                         Problem Statement
>             Author:     R. Barnes, B. Schneier,
>                         C. Jennings, T. Hardie,
>                         B. Trammell, C. Huitema,
>                         D. Borkmann
>             Status:     Informational
>             Stream:     IAB
>             Date:       August 2015
>             Mailbox:    rlb at ipv.sx,
>                         schneier at schneier.com
>     <mailto:schneier at schneier.com>,
>                         fluffy at cisco.com <mailto:fluffy at cisco.com>,
>                         ted.ietf at gmail.com <mailto:ted.ietf at gmail.com>,
>                         ietf at trammell.ch <mailto:ietf at trammell.ch>,
>                         huitema at huitema.net <mailto:huitema at huitema.net>,
>                         daniel at iogearbox.net <mailto:daniel at iogearbox.net>
>             Pages:      24
>             Characters: 62260
>             Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
> 
>             I-D Tag:    draft-iab-privsec-confidentiality-threat-07.txt
> 
>             URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7624
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>             DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7624
> 
>     Since the initial revelations of pervasive surveillance in 2013,
>     several classes of attacks on Internet communications have been
>     discovered.  In this document, we develop a threat model that
>     describes these attacks on Internet confidentiality.  We assume an
>     attacker that is interested in undetected, indiscriminate
>     eavesdropping.  The threat model is based on published, verified
>     attacks.
> 
>     This document is a product of the Internet Architecture Board.
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