On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 1:59 PM Alexey Melnikov <aamelni...@fastmail.fm>
wrote:

> Hi Ekr,
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, at 3:07 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > DISCUSS:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I support Benjamin's DISCUSS.
> >
> > To elaborate on one point a bit: it seems to me that it's harmful to
> > security to allow the sender to unilaterally override the recipient's
> > preferences that something be encrypted. To forestall one argument,
> > yes, the sender knows the contents of the message, but the recipient
> > knows their own circumstances, and they may be at particular risk
>
> I don't agree with this part of your DISCUSS and with your argument that
> this is the same as HSTS (I will try to gather my counter-arguments in a
> separate email), but in the interest of being constructive: can you suggest
> a possible fix (or directions towards the fix) to address your DISCUSS?
>

Well, I think this field should only override the outgoing and not incoming
policies (or be removed).

-Ekr


> Thank you,
> Alexey
>
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