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HTTPS and the future of mobile proxied web

Posted by tnkgrl | Posted in Featured, Security | Posted on 30-01-2009

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network-diagramDennis Bournique of WAP review has written an excellent article telling the world why the W3C’s proposed handling of HTTPS by proxy servers is a REALLY BAD IDEA.

Over at About Mobility, C.Enrique Oritz has posted his HELL YEAH article, stating how BAD AN IDEA it is to even call it HTTPS.  The problem is that the W3C HTTPS standard will allow traffic from your mobile browser to your (encrypted server) Bank to be decrypted by proxied transcoders, like Opera.  The user thinks his data is secure, because it’s HTTPS, when infact, the return traffic from the Opera proxy server is not encrypted.

 

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