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@lautan@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed

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Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed

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@lautan@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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There's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google, and…
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    ^Instead it transmits a list of running processes (or other, formerly private info).

    No it doesn’t. Attestation is simply a cryptographicly signed “we trust this user is human” message.

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      Based on what?

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        Based on the spec. The token is simply a signature that can be checked at the issuing party (Apple for this news item).

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