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Re: [GNU/consensus] PGP as web standard
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senya |
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Re: [GNU/consensus] PGP as web standard |
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Tue, 30 Dec 2014 06:18:22 +0300 |
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30.12.2014 05:11, carlo von lynX пишет:
> It has been done. Web Crypto API is being deployed. It is a terrible
> idea that Eleanor Saitta and I have heavily criticized in the
> respective W3C mailing lists because there is no way on earth that
> servers can be trusted to deliver the correct HTML and Javascript
> such that end-to-end encryption will actually take place - therefore
> it is giving false promises to users. There is no privacy gain
> compared to using HTTPS and having the server handle the data
> since users would never be able to tell when their trust is broken.
>
This is a good explanation why javascript solutions don't do. Thanks.