Closed
Bug 914535
Opened 11 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
Add HTTPSec, S-HTTP or HTTP-SEA support
Categories
(Core :: Security: PSM, defect)
Core
Security: PSM
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: fabian.deutsch, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130820141247
Steps to reproduce:
The current mechanism to secure the transport between HTTP endpoints is to use HTTPS.
The drawback of this is that - at least - a server owner needs to obtain a certificate for this. Surely self-signed certificates can also be used, but you know what warnings will appear in the browser.
HTTPSec was a protocll suggested by secarta and encryper the payload of HTTP and worked with publickey encryption. Alice could create it's own certificate and publish the public part of it for remote parties to encrypt data destined for Alice. No central authority was needed. Surely this protocol has drawbacks, but at least it unties the encryption from a central authority.
I'd like to see such a protocol in Firefox and friends to have a standardized possibility to secure messages without needing to gain a certificate as this is much easier for smaller parties to offer secured services in the internet. And if we want more parties to offer secure stuff we should probably investigate more ways to do this.
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Comment 1•11 years ago
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Or is there already some http based solution/standard to exchange (partially-)encrypted http requests and responses between two parties?
Summary: Add HTTPSec or S-HTTP support → Add HTTPSec, S-HTTP or HTTP-SEA support
Updated•11 years ago
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Component: Security → Security: PSM
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Updated•11 years ago
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OS: Linux → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
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Comment 2•9 years ago
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This isn't something we're going to devote resources to for the time being.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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