Hi Stephen,
Burke, S (Stephen) пишет:
> But the web does have reasonable security, without ssl it would be a lot
> less successful, and certainly it's hard to see how ssl limited the
> spread in any way.
Well, SSL is good, but the steepest Web growth curve was achieved year
or two before SSL was reasonably implemented, at least on the client
side. Hmm, maybe that's where it started to slow down? :-) And it was
until recently forbidden to use in France, and you know the story about
cryptography technology export ban. And by the way, what's percentage of
sites that rely on SSL? Must be single digits, if not less.
> I could say it the other way around: without security
> you could *only* do anonymous things, and that's pretty limiting.
Oh, no, it's *freedom* :-) Given that anonymous clients are accepted by
the services. Let me give an example: what's limiting, is that you have
to carry your passport when you cross from UK to France, and you might
be even kicked out if it is expired. While the real great thing is that
you can cross from Germany to France absolutely anonymously, and still
be able to do your shopping. Well, perhaps you see it other way around.
> The
> internet originally had the luxury of growing in an academic environment
> where hackers weren't much of a problem; the Grid doesn't have that
> freedom, and has no chance of being a success if hackers get into it.
Oh, really? Haven't seen any commercial Grid yet, matching what has
grown in our quite academic environment. You (?) once correctly noted
that our Grid is not hacked *yet* because it is fairly obscure, being
largely a toy of just few scientists from a quite narrow community. So
we enjoy so far the same luxury as internet once did.
Oxana
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