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#infos
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auth-name : substack
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tag : browser, crypto, web
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advance costs : N
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need room : Y
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Location : Oakland (but I will be in Paris)
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Can host ppl : N
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# REBOOT THE WEB
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Browsers have been quietly and methodically adding native crypto primitives,
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but one gaping attack vector remains: every time you load a page, you load code
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directly from the server.
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The person running that server can be coerced, hacked, or forced by sealed court
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order to change that javascript payload at any time. What we need to make web
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crypto viable is a bootloader for the web. Luckily, this is now possible by
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abusing the new application cache API to brick a website except for a
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whitelisted update feed. Now the user can finally be in control of which updates
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they get from web pages, making browser crypto much more secure while preserving
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all the usability benefits of the web.
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