Re: [tor-dev] HTTPS Everywhere harmful

2015-04-25 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 08:05:43PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: > ** Sure, there could be a pile of new attribute flags that could be set > on every HTML resource tag that says the resource must use a "secure > http:" channel if the parent document happened to load over a secure > channel, but the net

Re: [tor-dev] HTTPS Everywhere harmful

2015-04-24 Thread yan
To be clear, Tim is talking about "HTTPS Everywhere" in general, not the browser extension! On 4/24/15 8:05 PM, Mike Perry wrote: Maciej Soltysiak: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-NotTheS.html The problem with his argument is that the web (and any protocol, really) needs a way to dem

Re: [tor-dev] HTTPS Everywhere harmful

2015-04-24 Thread Mike Perry
Maciej Soltysiak: > http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-NotTheS.html The problem with his argument is that the web (and any protocol, really) needs a way to demand a hard guarantee that a request must proceed over a secure transport layer. If that layer is not available, the request must fail.

[tor-dev] HTTPS Everywhere harmful

2015-04-24 Thread Maciej Soltysiak
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-NotTheS.html Maciej ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev