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Re: Meta-comment: use of "red" / "black" terminology...



At 13:15 -0600 11/10/03, Radia Perlman wrote:
>I agree with Ted. Even though I know what the terms mean, I never could
>remember which was red and which was black. It's unnecessary to introduce
>new terms at this stage.
>
>Radia
>

I'm open to suggestions for alternative terms.  We have used 
"plaintext" and ciphertext" in some cases, but these are not great 
terms in the IPsec context, since bypassed traffic is emitted on the 
"ciphertext" side.  The terms "trusted" and "untrusted" is also 
problematic.

Steve