[Server-devel] wwwoffle

C. Scott Ananian cscott at laptop.org
Mon Feb 4 12:04:22 EST 2008


On Feb 4, 2008 9:23 AM, Andy Rabagliati <andyr at wizzy.com> wrote:
> * the resulting cache is tarred up and compressed, and sent to the
>   requestor via UUCP, where it is unpacked.
>
> wwwoffle's cache heirarchy makes this possible.

Hopefully the hierarchy gets flattened at some point, and you don't
end up with lots of independent caches?

> There is a lot of trust involved, with little security at the moment.

What are the most pressing security issues from your perspective?
Obviously a malicious person can alter the web traffic enroute; are
there other issues?
 --scott

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