On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:02 AM, James A. Donald <jam...@echeque.com> wrote:
> On 2013-11-06 21:11, Peter Gutmann wrote: > >> I'm arguing for incremental upgrades to existing protocols, not >> greenfields >> developments. >> > > Observe email. > > You can't get there from here. > > > It's probably too late to invent a "better TLS" or "better PGP" >> or "better S/MIME" now (although we can always do a better IPsec :-), so >> we >> have to incrementally upgrade existing universal-substrate protocols as >> best >> we can. >> > > Network effects make it hard to get a better TLS adopted, but SSH replaced > telnet. No, ssh replaced rlogin :-)
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