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posted by Dopefish on Monday February 24 2014, @06:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the things-could-get-hairy dept.

mrbluze writes:

"A modified HTTP protocol is being proposed (the proposal is funded by AT&T) which would allow ISP's to decrypt and re-encrypt traffic as part of day to day functioning in order to save money on bandwidth through caching. The draft document states:

To distinguish between an HTTP2 connection meant to transport "https" URIs resources and an HTTP2 connection meant to transport "http" URIs resource, the draft proposes to 'register a new value in the Application Layer Protocol negotiation (ALPN) Protocol IDs registry specific to signal the usage of HTTP2 to transport "http" URIs resources: h2clr.

The proposal is being criticized by Lauren Weinstein in that it provides a false sense of security to end users who might believe that their communications are actually secure. Can this provide an ISP with an excuse to block or throttle HTTPS traffic?"

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by lennier on Monday February 24 2014, @08:17PM

    by lennier (2199) on Monday February 24 2014, @08:17PM (#6130)

    I agree that caching and re-encrypting encrypted data seems dodgy. But I'd also say that not only are the days of insufficient bandwidth not gone and never will be gone (how many simultaneous streams of cat videos does the world need? Just one more!) - a world of pervasive caching (done at a correct lower protocol level, not at the application level) is the Star Trek future of networking. At least that's the idea behind content centric networking [parc.com], which seems to have some big names in TCP/IP behind it.

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