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Re: Bringing Tahoe ideas to HTTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexandre Dulaunoy)
Fri Sep 18 11:32:46 2009
In-Reply-To: <E1MoV3o-0002kX-PJ@wintermute01.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:35:58 +0200
From: Alexandre Dulaunoy <adulau@gmail.com>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Peter Gutmann
<pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Although the draft has expired, the concept lives on in various tools. =
=A0For
> example DownThemAll for Firefox supports this. =A0There was some discussi=
on
> about including it into FF3, but then the draft was dropped and the FF su=
pport
> never appeared, does anyone know what happened?
It was a SoC project within Mozilla but seeing the following discussion :
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D377245
The state looks a bit unclear to me...
> (The cynic in me would say "it's such a simple, straightforward, easy-to-
> implement idea, of course it'll never be adopted when there are things li=
ke EV
> certs to be pushed instead", but who knows...).
<mode type=3D"cynic">
Right... When I see the EV audit process[1], it looks to me like PCI DSS wi=
thout
the technical aspect...
</mode>
[1] http://cabforum.org/WebTrustAuditGuidelines.pdf
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