- From: Mike Belshe <mike@belshe.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:39:00 -0400
- To: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org, "William Chan (陈智昌)" <willchan@chromium.org>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Nicolas Mailhot <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net">nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" x-style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> Le Ven 6 avril 2012 16:43, William Chan (陈智昌) a écrit :<br> <div class="im"><br> >> If you want to add security to browsing make *very* sure there is little<br> >> reason<br> >> for legal-abiding entities to break it, or they will finance and build the<br> >> tools<br> >> criminals will use. That means using encryption sparingly, not as a blanket<br> >> system.<br> <br> > This logic makes no sense to me. I disagree strongly.<br> <br> </div>I'm not making a logic point, I'm stating how things are moving now, from<br> direct experience. People have been blindly pushing for https everywhere those<br> past years without handling the pain points this caused to corporations, and<br> as a results lots of proxy providers are getting fat sums to break this<br> encryption now<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This sounds great to me. If it gets broken, we'll fix it. No point in pretending it is secure if it is really not.</div><div><br>I expect a lot of innovation in the CA verification / trust arena in the next few years. If you keep up on that side of the world - you'll see there is a lot that can change very soon. But this is a bit orthogonal to HTTP/2.0. </div> <div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" x-style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> (and btw browsers and google are not the only ones to blame, vendors like<br> Citrix that have told IT it could just tunnel citrix through https and network<br> admins would be none the wiser helped quite a lot too)<br> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> --<br> Nicolas Mailhot<br> <br> <br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br>
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