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Re: [tahoe-dev] Bringing Tahoe ideas to HTTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn)
Wed Sep 16 19:42:45 2009
In-Reply-To: <CB44DF6D-7829-4042-AD61-6A05C5907E15@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
Cc: jamesd@echeque.com,
Brian Warner <warner@lothar.com>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko@zooko.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:54:07 -0600
To: tahoe-dev@allmydata.org
On Wednesday,2009-09-16, at 14:44 , Ivan Krsti=C4=87 wrote:
> Yes, and I'd be happy to opine on that as soon as someone told me =20
> what those important problems are.
The message that you quoted from Brian Warner, which ended with him =20
wondering aloud what new applications could be enabled by such =20
features, began with him mentioning a specific use case that he cares =20=
about and sees how to improve: authentication of Mozilla plugins. =20
Brian has an admirable habit of documenting the use cases that =20
motivate his engineering decisions. I think in this case he omitted =20
some explanation of why he finds the current solution unsatisfactory, =20=
perhaps because he assumed the audience already shared his view. (I =20
think he mentioned something in his letter like "the well-known =20
failures of the SSL/CA approach to this problem".)
Regards,
Zooko=
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