Re: Some reasons why mandating use ofSSL for HTTP is a really bad idea

That's nice, but I don't think content tempering is a major concern in
this discussion.

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
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> On 18 Jul 2012, at 18:03, Zhong Yu wrote:
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>> If TLS is mandated, yet NULL cipher is acceptable, what was the point
>> of mandating TLS in the first place?
>
> You get the security that the information was not corrupted along the way.
> The User experience really needs to make that visible, but that's not a problem
> with TLS.
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Mike Belshe <mike@belshe.com> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Grahame Grieve <grahame@kestral.com.au>
>>> wrote:
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>>> Naw - this is not a big deal.  For instance, a server can send a NULL cipher
>>> to the client.  In normal modes, browsers will reject the NULL cipher and
>>> not negotiate it.  however, you can use command line flags to allow it.
>>>
>>> We do this all the time.  Another example is for turning on
>>> same-origin-policy.  Browsers often have debugging modes for turning it off.
>>> You have to run the browser in a special, techie, opt-in way to do it, but
>>> it is there.
>>>
>>> I used these all the time when developing in Chrome.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Grahame
>>>
>>>
>>
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Received on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:21:41 UTC