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Re: [hybi] It's time to ship

Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> Mon, 10 January 2011 00:37 UTC

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On 9 January 2011 23:21, Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> wrote:
> Gentle people of hybi,
>
> There's been a lot of good discussion in this working group gathering
> consensus around the data framing and the handshake.  At some point we
> need to declare victory and ship the protocol, otherwise proprietary
> solutions will continue to eat our lunch.
>
> I've written up a more formal version of Pat's proposal based on the
> recent straw poll and subsequent discussion.  This protocol is by no
> means perfect, but it's good enough:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-abarth-thewebsocketprotocol-01.txt
>

I cannot agree this proposal.

I would only accept a cryptographic masking algorithm if it is applied
as an extension (mandatory for browsers) that can be replaced by other
algorithms
I would only accept stream based masking if it does not apply to framing.

If we were to follow John Tamplins prior proposal, then I'd accept
AES-128-CTR (or similar) if that was the consensus, but my preference
is still for something simpler.


regards

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