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by erikerikson 391 days ago
Nothing to apologize for, thanks again.

When using symmetric signing, the threat model advantage I was advocating for disappears. Finding examples like Stripe and GitHub using symmetric signing was easy. Given this it seems far more likely this is an artifact of a time that you couldn't expect customers to host using HTTPS.

I'll chalk this up as another one of those "oh god, really?" moments with this industry.