Re: HTTP 2.0 and a Faster, more Mobile-friendly web

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:09:57 +0200, patrick mcmanus <pmcmanus@mozilla.com>  
wrote:

> On 7/30/2012 12:02 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>
>> It is not clear to me exactly what these major implementers mean when
>> they say "TLS is mandatory"
>>
>> Do they mean "TLS MUST be supported" or "TLS MUST be used" ?
>
> I mean that HTTP/2 must be secure against (at least) passive  
> eavesdropping attacks at all times. TLS is the bird-in-hand for that  
> right now, but it does not exclude other solutions. Other properties of  
> TLS are desirable too, but they don't necessarily rise to the level of  
> mandatory to implement for me.
>

I think such requirement will immediately prompt development of  
HTTP/2-light without TLS for use in intra-data-center communications (and  
China and India).

/Martin Nilsson

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