- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:21:21 +0000
- To: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
- cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
In message <f46d469093a1a7d6a357d77a68217002@treenet.co.nz>, Amos Jeffries writ es: >I completely agree that this needs to be addressed, but the transport >appears to be doing everything right so far. Everything, that is, except performance and choice. There is no way to get around that mandatory TLS is overkill in many high-volume applications, most notably p0rn. If you want to kill HTTP/1.1, you have to make HTTP/2.0 a good idea for the 50% of web traffic consisting of pink bits. Second, there are places where TLS is simply not a good idea, either because other security measures are in place, or because transparency is specifically called for (Think: Flight Recorder). -- 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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