Re:Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?
by skybrian on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:53PM
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It seems like there is a risk that an old version of a bundle will get served instead of a new one by an arbitrary host? Maybe the bundle should have a list of trusted mirrors?
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There is a publisher selected expiration date as part of the signed exchange which the client inspects. The expiration also cannot be set to more than 7 days in the future on creation. This minimizes, but of course does not eliminate, this risk.
It also makes signed exchanges completely unusable for delivering packages offline. (E.g. the USB stick scenario)
What a bummer.
Browsers could have a setting to optionally display the content anyway, along with a warning to the effect of "site X is trying to show an archive of site Y", similar to how we currently handle expired or self-signed SSL certificates.
Alternatively super short expiry times. It doesn't seem like it would be that concerning to have another site serving a bundle that was 5 minutes out of date. It doesn't seem like it should be too much load to be caching content every 5 minutes.