- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 08:22:23 +0000
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- cc: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
-------- Roy T. Fielding writes: > Technically, I don't feel that wrapping base HTTP semantics as an encrypted > package containing a binary encoding of HTTP/1, and then using POST to fling > it around the world, is the right approach. As a general rule: Political problems do not have technical solutions, and if the past couple of decades are any guidance, attempting to 'lock in' politically unsettled human rights with cryptography only seems to make matters worse. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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