- From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:45:10 +0100
- To: "Close, Tyler J." <tyler.close@hp.com>
- Cc: W3 Work Group <public-wsc-wg@w3.org>
On 2007-01-08 23:13:51 -0600, Close, Tyler J. wrote: > Self-signed certificates can be supported with excellent > security. The current browsers just haven't figured it out yet. > Hopefully we can do something about this before the world of > appliances is permanently banished from the secure web. Cost > *matters* for appliances. This observation is confirmed by the way in which, e.g., my DSL router uses SSL. In that case, things get even more interesting by the observation that the DNS name and IP address of the appliance are configurable (or autodiscovered). I think that this is precisely the kind of use case story that we need to describe in the note. Tyler, mind turning your remote-controlled furnance into one? Cheers, -- Thomas Roessler, W3C <tlr@w3.org>
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