Re: SSL/TLS everywhere fail

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In message <814951E1-DB77-4C6E-A144-FCEE17D73DD8@greenbytes.de>, Stefan Eissing writes:
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>> Am 07.12.2015 um 13:13 schrieb Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>:
>>=20
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>> In message <AD5923A5-875D-4A3B-AFFF-26CE042934FC@lukasa.co.uk>, Cory =
>Benfield writes:
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>> For instance I could open a HTTPS to a newspaper, and one of the
>> things I get back is the instruction:  "When you pick up our stuff
>> from the 3rd party CDN, the content must be signed with this key".
>>=20
>> That could put integrity around an awfull lot of content which
>> simply doesn't need TLS because it is 100% public, with the
>> huge added benefit that the CDN's do need access to keys.
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>You mean, do *not* need access to keys, right?=20

Correct, sorry for the typo.

>As the origin would put the signature together with the content at the 
>CDN, or?

Yes, basically the CDN gets the content with signature from origin
and doesn't even need to know what the signature means.

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Received on Monday, 7 December 2015 12:35:06 UTC