The weird thing is they got @matthew_d_green to front it for themhttps://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/888842483668586500 …
If that's not the case could you elaborate rather than just making an accusation of "fronting"?
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fronting as "his name is on the draft and he was at IETF for the first time I remember promoting it at TLS"
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Again that doesn't really distinguish without looking at mailing list posts or meeting minutes, etc..
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IIRC he was one target of the "NSA is bribing academics" smear campaign, so I'm (hopefully understandably) skeptical of related claims...
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people can and do change opinions. But sacrificing PFS for enterprise decryption seems bad.
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The "pragmatic" position seems to be that enterprise will break PFS somehow anyway, and that it's better to have an official clean way...
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...than for them to do some awful hacks that break things even worse. I think this view is wrong but I understand why some ppl hold it.
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I agree with
@stevecheckoway's conclusion and also his choice to distinguish between the enterprise and "pragmatist" positions, and... -
...the former is indefensibly, maliciously bad, whereas the latter is a matter of disagreement on how to achieve least damaging outcome.
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