- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:09:35 +0000
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- cc: Yngve Nysaeter Pettersen <yngve@opera.com>, URI <uri@w3.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.1203051655450.6189@ps20323.dreamhostps.com>, Ian Hick son writes: >For example, the content could be a movie. "A" would be a movie >distributor, "C" would be a consumer, and "B" would be a CDN. B is paid by >A to host the content, but B might have rogue elements who would take all >of the movie content and upload it to a copyright-violating community. I'm sorry, but IMO this is just security-theater, and it represents so terrible handling of key-material that it is deeply irresponsible to even mention it in a standards document, without a lengthy list of caveats and disclaimers. Somebody should point Bruce Schneier at this, he needs a good laugh... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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