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A comment on Ask HN: Are we killing the web by giving to much power to SSL cert authorities. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Are we killing the web by giving to much power to... by jdsully on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @12:51PM (#19675229)
Being solved the in the other direction, soon all unencrypted traffic will be marked as dangerous.

FWIW the trend has been ongoing for a long time. I remember 10 years ago being frustrated I couldn't scp with the NULL cipher on my own local LAN unless I built from source.

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Re:Ask HN: Are we killing the web by giving to much power to... by RandomInteger4 on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:01AM (#19680406)
What benefit do you gain from making your life more complicated just to use scp with a null cipher?
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