Re: New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-http2-encryption-03.txt

On Tue, 20 May 2014 18:54:22 +0200, Martin Thomson  
<martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Maybe there's a case for further highlighting the distinction we want
> to retain, at least at the broadest level of generality: https ==
> secure, http == not.  That is the point of Section 6.1, but I might be
> convinced that repetition of this is necessary.
>

I assume that the set of ciphers you negotiate from would be the same here  
as for https. The performance difference isn't big, and you minimize your  
traffic analysis footprint by not having different TLS parameters for http  
and https URLs. Given this the only possible difference are the  
certificates, and they will be the same for http as https users of a  
specific site. So in practice there will be no difference between the  
actual connections for http and https in many cases. Should you still not  
show any security indicators in the UI?

/Martin Nilsson

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