| ▲ | krapp 2 hours ago | |
>Removing encryption means that you can't reasonably do financial transactions, accounts and access restriction, exchange of private information, etc... You only share what you want to share publicly, with no restrictions. It seriously limits commercial potential which is the point. People will still do financial transactions on an unencrypted web because the utility outweighs the risk. Removing encryption just guarantees the risk is high. | ||
| ▲ | zzo38computer 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> People will still do financial transactions on an unencrypted web because the utility outweighs the risk. Removing encryption just guarantees the risk is high. That does not necessarily require TLS to mitigate (although TLS does help, anyways). There are other issues with financial transactions, whether or not TLS is used. (I had idea, and wrote a draft specification of, "computer payment file", to try to improve security of financial transactions and avoid some kinds of dishonesty; it has its own security and does not require TLS (nor does it require any specific protocol), although using TLS with this is still helpful.) (There are potentially other ways to mitigate the problems as well, but this is one way that I think would be helpful.) | ||