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When SSL gets broken, there are built in mechanisms that generally demonstrate 'something' is being screwed with.

With JS crypto, that goes away - if the JS is shipped over the wire, it can just be silently replaced.

If you're relying on SSL to protect the JS crypto, why bother with the JS crypto in the first place?

When vendors ship some kind of client-side pre-built verification capability (i.e. code that DOES NOT come over the wire), much like the existing SSL stack, things will change dramatically.



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