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Mass surveillance prompts IETF work on SSL deployment guidelines |
December 17, 2013
A newly created working group within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has set out to develop best practices for deploying SSL encryption for Internet communications.The group’s creation follows revelations in recent months about mass Internet surveillance programs run by the U.S. National Security Agency, the U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and other intelligence agencies.IETF’s new “Using TLS in Applications” (UTA) group became active last Wednesday when its charter was approved. It will focus on issuing guidance on using TLS (Transport Layer Security), the successor of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), with several application protocols: SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) used for email transmission across the Internet; POP (Post Office Protocol) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) used by email clients to retrieve emails from servers; XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) used for instant messaging; and HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) version 1.1, the foundation of data communication on the World Wide Web.This working group has its roots in the IETF “perpass” mainling list that was created explicitly to coordinate ideas and discussions on pervasive monitoring and surveillance, Leif Johansson, member of the board of directors at Internet Exchange Point (IXP) operator Netnod and co-chair of the new IETF UTA group, said via email.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2081200/mass-surveillance-prompts-ietf-work-on-ssl-deployment-guidelines.html#tk.rss_all
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