Re: Stateful compression of cookies (Re: Delta Compression and UTF-8 Header Values)

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> In message <CAK3OfOhcHQy1sosXNuVBS2emYFnY14wNrxs8-O0MkL5c7YJBHA@mail.gmail.com>
> , Nico Williams writes:
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>>As for privacy, encrypted state cookies do not compromise privacy any
>>more than random session IDs.
>
> ...unless of course, they are used to track your on-line behaviour to
> such an degree that the EU finds reason to regulate them ?

But I'm not talking about web cookies.  Just state cookies in the
general sense -- these clearly are no different than session IDs with
unconstrained size.

Nico
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Received on Monday, 11 February 2013 16:59:12 UTC