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Pseudo HTTPS Proposed

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: 1) by Jiro on Tuesday February 25 2014, @01:00AM

    by Jiro (3176) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @01:00AM (#6309)

    Is the way this article ends, with either the submitter or editor posing a random question somewhat related to the article's subject. On Slashdot, the record of such questions being insightful, or even relevant, is not that good, and they often just end up becoming instances of Betteridge's law.

    We really don't need to copy the stupid stuff from Slashdot.

    (I've found, for instance, that on Slashdot when my comments are set to nested, often going to the second page brings up exactly the same page as the first page and I have to go 3-4 pages ahead before I get comments I haven;t seen before. I really hope this doesn't show up here too.)

  • (Score: 1) by photong on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:27AM

    by photong (2219) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:27AM (#6387)

    Amen to this. Please leave such comments for the ... comments.