- From: Rafal Pietrak <cookie.rp@ztk-rp.eu>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 16:11:08 +0200
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Hi Everyone, This is not my field (and I apologise to cut in), but... If not a list of "unnecessary" encryption, may be a list of "know cases", where in "ordinary use", there is little to gain by encryption. ...since it is usually good know (explicitly) the state of the matter. -R W dniu 07.06.2021 o 07:27, Willy Tarreau pisze: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 01:25:26PM +0900, Martin J. Dürst wrote: >> I wonder if it isn't time to write a small RFC that lists the cases where >> encryption,... isn't appropriate. (Not that I have the expertise or the >> necessary cycles, sorry.) > > I'd avoid this. It can easily end up in a flame war because different > people have different opinions on the importance on accessbility, > confidentiality, integrity, tracing etc, and we can be sure that even > the most stupid examples will be defended to death to argument for or > against. Let's just leave it to common sense for as long as we can, > even if it results in a request for deprecation once in a while. > > Just my two cents, > Willy > -- Rafał Pietrak
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