Re: [hybi] Insight you need to know: Browsers are at fault when servers crash

Roderick Baier <roderick.baier@hs-weingarten.de> Mon, 26 July 2010 09:11 UTC

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Willy Tarreau schrieb:
> This principle sounds good, and in my opinion would be compatible with
> Greg's proposal of putting the nonce in a request header. Basically the
> client chooses a random key, advertises it as a nonce and can start
> sending data encrypted with that key. It must then check once the server
> responds that the hash of the key that confirms its will to use it
> for all data past the headers.
> 
> Willy
> 

So you want to encrypt the data with a key which was transmitted without 
encryption? Did I get you right?

Best regards
Roderick