Re: Authentication over HTTP

On 15 Jul 2013, at 10:37, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> In message <20E2425E-2FD7-4435-9529-1C3FC001D495@bblfish.net>, Henry Story writ
> es:
> 
>> Computational cost is no longer a problem. Google and Facebook provide
>> it with billions of connections a day.
> 
> That's like saying "transportation is non-issue, because Bill Gates
> have a private jet."
> 
> Not everybody has Google and FaceBook's globally distributed resources,
> nor their laser-like focus on delivering web-content.

For those who don't have billions of hits a day, they have even less
of an issue, since they have more spare cycles. Computer power has massively
increased since 1998.

btw. one version of DANE is implemented in Chrome

> 
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Received on Monday, 15 July 2013 16:36:17 UTC