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Yep... yawn. Why bother with the time and effort it takes to do this? I don't get it.

• tux3 4y ago
  Because they didn't do that with TLS and HTTP, and then they discovered many networks had become home to middleboxes that shipped ossified out of the box and broke horribly whenever trying to deploy any improvements They're like mold, these middleboxes. Grows easily, doesn't evolve much, likes sitting in the dark, surprisingly hard to kill, and ultimately not very friendly to human life By exercising the fields early and encrypting anything that's not nailed down, they prevent ossification from taking hold before it becomes a problem
  • xxpor 4y ago
    On the other hand, they prevent middleboxes from providing any value as well. I don't mean stupid nonsense like corporate TLS man-in-the-middle, but also.... load balancers.
    • YesThatTom2 4y ago
      That’s the point.