Re: Moving forward on improving HTTP's security

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On 11/14/2013 06:07 PM, Tao Effect wrote:
> 2. A false sense of security is _worse_ than knowing you aren't
> secure.

Protocols do not give any "sense of security" neither true nor
false so attempting to argue from that basis is a fallacy IMO.

If an example helps, some of the very earliest browsers used to
generate session keys very badly - no matter how secure the protocol
had been it'd have made no difference. And afaik there's no way to
give a "sense of security" that'd capture that.

The whole "false sense of security" argument is basically bogus
in this context, it could perhaps be meaningful in a UI developer
discussion, but not here, no matter how good it sounds.

S.
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Received on Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:58:06 UTC