Re: Response to HTTP2 expresions of interest

OK HTTP is not going to be acceptably secure for the types of
application TLS is typically used today.

But that is still only 1% or so of traffic. that leaves quite a gap.


On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <CAMm+Lwgr1cnM3-iz_quKhN9N_dS1d6qdv26kSvKZ+T_Hr9L+hw@mail.gmail.com>
> , Phillip Hallam-Baker writes:
>
>>5a) The TLS-HTTP gap
>>
>>Now as far as HTTP is concerned, headers have security implications
>>and so HTTP is not going to be acceptably secure without either
>>transport layer or packet layer security.
>
> I disagree.
>
> What HTTP lacks is a clear distinction between "envelope" and "body"
> the way SMTP and NNTP have it.
>
> HTTP/2.0 would enable a lot more sites to run with cryptographic
> security, if there were an unprotected envelope for load-balancers
> to act on.
>
> I also think it should be possible to mix protected and unprotected
> requests on the same TCP session.
>
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Received on Friday, 13 July 2012 17:42:37 UTC