Re: new version trusted-proxy20 draft

"That's false, but pretty close to true, so I'll ignore it."

Are you referring to the traffic that is HTTP-schemed but connected to a
secure proxy over TLS as per the other thread? Is there any non-proxied
http-schemed traffic running over TLS currently?

Thanks!

Peter


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:12 AM, William Chan (陈智昌)
<willchan@chromium.org>wrote:

> That's false, but pretty close to true, so I'll ignore it. In any case, it
> depends if opportunistic encryption takes off. I think Patrick was
> experimenting on this in collaboration with mnot@. I expect we'll hear an
> update in London, and perhaps have some more discussion on the topic.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Peter Lepeska <bizzbyster@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Okay. But currently no "http"-schemed traffic runs over TLS. Do we think
>> this will account for a significant portion of web traffic in the future?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Currently, "http" and "https" conflate the browser security model with
>>> the transport security model. The "https" browser security model might not
>>> be acceptable for certain resources even if the transport security model is
>>> preferable.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Peter Lepeska <bizzbyster@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Salvatore,
>>>>
>>>> As you know, I'm all for new proposals that support both Secure Proxy
>>>> and Trusted Proxy. So thanks for writing and posting this. I'm struggling
>>>> to understanding how http URIs over TLS work as described in your draft. My
>>>> main question is:
>>>>
>>>> If the content server supports authenticated TLS, then why isn't the
>>>> content just hosted via "https"-schemed URIs? What is the reason that the
>>>> content server would make this content available via http schemes?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Ryan Hamilton <rch@google.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think that Will is supportive of secure proxies as he said upthread:
>>>>>
>>>>> Let's be clear, these are two different things. There's "secure proxy"
>>>>> which is securing the connection between the proxy and the client. I'm
>>>>> supportive of standardizing this.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Chrome currently supports specifying such proxies via pac files:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/secure-web-proxy
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ryan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 24.02.2014 22:25, William Chan (陈智昌) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've asked this before, and I still think it's a reasonable question.
>>>>>>> Is there another vendor that wants to interop with this kind of
>>>>>>> proxy?
>>>>>>> I'm asking this because I think that the purpose of standardizing
>>>>>>> such
>>>>>>> a proposal is for interoperability across vendors, and I don't see
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> point if the only implementations are Ericsson. But I may be
>>>>>>> misunderstanding IETF policy here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are other implementations of "secure proxies" like Chrome on
>>>>>> Android can use a Google proxy. Why should a user trust the Google proxy
>>>>>> more than a proxy from <insert your favorite mobile network operator>? An
>>>>>> interoperability would be good.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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