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Comment on One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seenparent

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I find it difficult to imagine a world where Applications agnostic caching for encrypted sessions is possible.

I fully expect a world where application developers have services at their disposal for positioning assets closer to the end user with VM instance level isolation and security guarantees.

Transport level security is not likely to be enough for high value/sensitivity data in the long run but adding a bunch of new trusted parties to the system is going to be huge enabler for end user surveillance.

Why application-agnostic? HTTP's own caching isn't application-agnostic; it relies on the server to specify Cache-Control headers.

I would imagine an ideal HTTP2 caching protocol to basically specify that some resources can come from anywhere, as long as the retrieved result conforms to an attached content hash—while also specifying a primary source to get the resource from, if you don't have a DHT handy. (Oddly enough, this is basically a suggestion that web browsers try to resolve magnet: URNs.)

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