- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:00:48 PST
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Jeff Mogul suggested adding: > The judicious use of cryptography, when appropriate, may suffice > to protect against a broad range of security and privacy attacks. > Such cryptography is beyond the scope of the HTTP/1.1 specification. with the caveat > if people don't think this is going too far out on a political limb. I don't think this is a 'political' ; it is just not very helpful. In a handbook of good practices for site security, 'use of cryptography' is just one of a large number of things that need to be done judiciously. In fact, I could imagine for a proxy cache that the main thing to do is to limit remote access.
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