<i>&gt; It is your assumption that the perceived threat is a &#x27;nation-state&#x27;...
... That was the opening sentence of my paragraph that demonstrated that there is no such thing as &quot;guaranteed security&quot;. If you think that there is such a thing, then you&#x27;re going to be confused about many things when you think about security matters.</i><p>If we can agree that this sort of thing won&#x27;t protect against nation-states (if you even wanted that), what exactly does it protect against that a plain TLS connection doesn&#x27;t?