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Can someone explain why EVERYTHING on the internet needs to be encrypted? For information that is obviously public (e.g. anything from today's articles on the N
by wfunction 11y ago
Can someone explain why EVERYTHING on the internet needs to be encrypted? For information that is obviously public (e.g. anything from today's articles on the New York Times to the installation image for Windows), doesn't it make more sense to encrypt the hash of the file, while making the file itself plaintext? That would seem to make it much easier to cache the data midway, reducing network traffic.
- Artemis2 11y agoThe way HTTPS works allows for authentication of the received data. Even for "obviously public" data, this is essential: an installation image of Windows could be modified to include malware, or news articles could be edited on the fly during transmission. Once everything is encrypted, the only things that can be known of a request are the origin IP and the destination IP.