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Re: Authentication over HTTP

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Mon, 15 July 2013 08:49 UTC

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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.

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