[jdev] Fwd: Getting our definitions of encryption straight for the HTTP/2 security discussion

Peter Saint-Andre stpeter at stpeter.im
Wed Nov 20 22:35:03 UTC 2013


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Of interest here regarding security terminology...


- -------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Getting our definitions of encryption straight for the HTTP/2
security discussion
Resent-Date: 	Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:25:35 +0000
Resent-From: 	ietf-http-wg at w3.org
Date: 	Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:24:52 -0800
From: 	Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at gmail.com>
To: 	ietf-http-wg at w3.org <ietf-http-wg at w3.org>



Greetings again. Over the past weeks, people are sometimes talking past
each other when they say they want to "always encrypt" HTTP/2 traffic.
In specific, many people have used the term "opportunistic encryption"
in very different ways without knowing it.

To help people at least understand what each other might be saying in
the future, I created a page with some definitions that hopefully
everyone can use. Comments are welcome.

http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/wiki/encryption-definitons

- --Paul Hoffman


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