- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:47:51 +0000
- To: Ross Nicoll <jrn@jrn.me.uk>
- cc: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <50081C8B.4010006@jrn.me.uk>, Ross Nicoll writes: >I'm guessing the idea would be to write an HTTP authentication protocol >that uses [...] All I can see HTTP doing, is transport opaque tokens forth and back. If we design the protocol to do that well enough, it will support any identification/authentication protocol you care to put on top of it today or at a later date. Adding "solving the second hardest problem in cryptography" to our TODO list, is scope-creep. -- 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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