Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART and OPS-Dir review of draft-ietf-httpbis-header-compression-10

On 01/23/2015 01:21 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
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> On 23/01/15 02:12, Martin Thomson wrote:
>> I definitely want to avoid making prescriptive statements about what to
>> protect, even couched as suggestions. However, I think that a more generic
>> statement that describes the characteristics of a header that might need
>> protection is definitely a good idea.
>>
>> If Herve doesn't get there first, I can purpose text that concentrates on
>> the coincidence of secret and small/easy-to-guess..
>
> Yep, that'd be a good addition I'd say, so long as you
> couch those characteristics as being the ones we know
> about today that contraindicate compression. Who knows
> what new attacks folks might find in future now that
> attention has been drawn to this.
>
> Cheers,
> S.

I made a proposal at https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/pull/704

Hervé.

>> On Jan 22, 2015 3:17 PM, "Jari Arkko" <jari.arkko@piuha.net> wrote:
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>>> Thanks for the response. I think this may slightly enhance the feeling
>>> that the list may not be needed.
>>>
>>> Jari
>>>
>>>
>>

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