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

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Mon, 26 July 2010 09:17 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:17:29 +0200
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To: Roderick Baier <roderick.baier@hs-weingarten.de>
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Roderick Baier
<roderick.baier@hs-weingarten.de> wrote:
> 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.
>
> So you want to encrypt the data with a key which was transmitted without
> encryption? Did I get you right?

That's correct.

Adam

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