- From: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:07:11 -0500
- To: "Adrien W. de Croy" <adrien@qbik.com>
- Cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com> wrote: > The man/woman in the middle who has the authority to snoop also has > the authority to temper with certificates. The cost of doing that is > not prohibitively high for the authority, therefore it should be a > point against mandatory encryption. correction: it should NOT be a point against mandatory encryption > For little guys though, the cost of certificates can be too high. I > don't think there's a conspiracy from Google etc to stiff > competitions, but these guys probably don't care too much about some > amateurs building toy webapps. > > Zhong Yu
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