- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:02:05 +0000
- To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
- cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org Group" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <CAMm+LwgQRnXsjvFkg42Tm3qZmY=M34-n1WM1W9V9oF-=udnBQQ@mail.gmail.com> , Phillip Hallam-Baker writes: >OK HTTP is not going to be acceptably secure for the types of >application TLS is typically used today. (Sorry, email misfire there). I think you're wrong about that. TLS already today leaks a lot of information to an eavesdropper, and adding a convenient routing-envelope will not increase that leakage if it is done correctly, but it will make it a lot easier for HTTP server side to implement and handle protected traffic at high traffic densities. -- 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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