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Effects of Pervasive Encryption on Operators
RFC 8404

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['NETCONF', 'RESTCONF', 'Monitoring', 'Management', 'Security Management', 'Operations']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System)
Changed author "A. Morton": changed name from "Al Morton" to "A. Morton", changed is_editor from "False" to "True", cleared country (was "USA"), changed order from …
Changed author "A. Morton": changed name from "Al Morton" to "A. Morton", changed is_editor from "False" to "True", cleared country (was "USA"), changed order from "1" to "2"
2026-05-20
(System)
Changed author "K. Moriarty": changed name from "Kathleen Moriarty" to "K. Moriarty", changed is_editor from "False" to "True", cleared country (was "USA"), changed order from …
Changed author "K. Moriarty": changed name from "Kathleen Moriarty" to "K. Moriarty", changed is_editor from "False" to "True", cleared country (was "USA"), changed order from "0" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2018-07-24
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8404, changed abstract to 'Pervasive monitoring attacks on the privacy of Internet users are of …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8404, changed abstract to 'Pervasive monitoring attacks on the privacy of Internet users are of serious concern to both user and operator communities.  RFC 7258 discusses the critical need to protect users' privacy when developing IETF specifications and also recognizes that making networks unmanageable to mitigate pervasive monitoring is not an acceptable outcome: an appropriate balance is needed.  This document discusses current security and network operations as well as management practices that may be impacted by the shift to increased use of encryption to help guide protocol development in support of manageable and secure networks.', changed pages to 53, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2018-07-24, changed IESG state to RFC Published)
2018-07-24
(System) RFC published