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Re: [perpass] Commnets on draft-farrell-perpass-attack-00 was RE: perens-perpass-appropriate-response-01

Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com> Wed, 04 December 2013 22:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [perpass] Commnets on draft-farrell-perpass-attack-00 was RE: perens-perpass-appropriate-response-01
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On Dec 4, 2013, at 5:05 PM, l.wood@surrey.ac.uk wrote:
> This is a political problem, not a technical problem. From a technical perspective, caching static content matters.  Trying to figure out problems that aren't security problems matters. Mandating secure communications for worldwide http is pretty much the same as mandating secure encrypted email worldwide - large failure modes, resulting in an inability to communicate. Which is why use of secure email is not widespread.

I take it you haven't been reading the responses to Bruce's essay, or you would have seen that these points have already been discussed and refuted.

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