Re: SPDY = HTTP/2.0 or not ?

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On 3/26/12 11:22 AM, Adrien W. de Croy wrote:
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> ------ Original Message ------ From: "Peter Saint-Andre"
> <stpeter@stpeter.im> To: "Adrien W. de Croy" <adrien@qbik.com> Cc:
> "Mike Belshe" <mike@belshe.com>;"Roy T. Fielding" 
> <fielding@gbiv.com>;"patrick mcmanus" 
> <pmcmanus@mozilla.com>;"ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org> 
> Sent: 26/03/2012 10:03:30 p.m. Subject: Re: SPDY = HTTP/2.0 or not
> ? On 3/26/12 10:56 AM, Adrien W. de Croy wrote:
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> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> From a practical point of view, there aren't a lot of 
>>>>> alternatives to SSL on the table right now.  Most people do
>>>>> agree that SSL does a reasonable job of preventing
>>>>> eavesdropping.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I can see a lot of resistance from customers told they now
>>>> need to buy and maintain a certificate from a CA just to run
>>>> a webserver.
>>>> 
>>>> Sure they can run a self-signed cert, but that doesn't fulfil
>>>> the goal of giving the user security.
>>>> 
> 
> 
> Could we cut the FUD about needing to pay for certs? There are
> indeed providers of free certificates (I won't mention names for
> fear of being tarred with a marketing brush).
> 
> 
>> providers of free certs who
> 
>> a) verify the identity of the entity they issue the certificate
>> to b) have a root cert that's sufficiently well deployed and
>> trusted to be usable
> 
>> ?  I'd be keen to know more.
> 
>> if not a (which is incompatible with free) then is it really
>> security?

You can check the cert at the URL in my sig.

> And SSL/TLS is not *necessarily* tied to PKI, either.
> 
> 
>> OK.  so no private key?  Just some shared secret then?

See for example the DANE WG:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dane-protocol

Peter

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