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Rethinking remote display

Rethinking remote display

Posted Nov 5, 2010 22:42 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: Rethinking remote display by JoeBuck
Parent article: LPC: Life after X

> "Just do it in the browser" seems a step backward from the security point of view; the HTTP server isn't running as me.

But why not? You can run an HTTP server as you. And then ideally you'd want to use some token-passing mechanism to prove to the server that you are you. Like, as browsers already implement, Kerberos. Maybe with the added detail of running a local KDC on every machine, as Apple does, to avoid needing to setup central kerberos infrastructure.


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