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You can email or hand out physical copies on usb would be one use case where server auth can't compete.
by Dma54rhs 4y ago
You can email or hand out physical copies on usb would be one use case where server auth can't compete.
- Karellen 4y agoAren't existing encryption tools more flexible for sending out copies via those methods? e.g. by making more cipher suites available? Or by allowing you to encrypt with the intended recipients' public keys, so you don't need to worry about distributing the passphrase securely? And might allow better integration with password managers, as the OS would recognise the files as being encrypted?
- layer8 4y agoSupposedly browsers are more ubiquitous on the recipient side than whatever other tools you might use.
- Karellen 4y agoI was thinking of editing my comment to add "Or be able to support filetypes other than HTML", but I suppose in our glorious "everything is the browser" future, filetypes other than HTML are as anachronistic as 8" floppy disks. Sigh.
- layer8 4y agoFWIW, you can use data URLs to include any type of file in your HTML, and with <a download='filename' href='data:…'> browsers will allow you to save the file.