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Re: The real problem that https has conspicuously failed to fix

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Thu Jun 12 16:56:45 2003

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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:34:59 -0700
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
In-reply-to: <3EE78D0F.3050206@mit.edu>
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On 11 Jun 2003 at 16:11, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote:
> Oh, and btw, the form posting URL in my message wasn't even
> https, it was just http. So all the futzing in the world with
> https wouldn't help!

If https provided an adequate substitute for shared secrets, it
would help.


    --digsig
         James A. Donald
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     B9cEiIa9s5fvgr0BsmE3D3+BgvAXXvyF1/xSIi0k
     4m1RrAexqkSii4X39kqfzefd2laQEwFD0bhYHaELv


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