Mozilla returns crypto-signed website packaging spec to sender – yes, it's Google

Ad giant's site slurping tech complicates web security model, could give more power to search engines and social networks, Firefox maker warns

By Thomas Claburn 30 May 2019

Mozilla has published a series of objections to web packaging, a content distribution scheme proposed by engineers at Google that the Firefox maker considers harmful to the web in its current form.

At its developer conference earlier this month, Google engineers talked up the tech, which consists of several related projects – Signed Exchanges, the web packaging format and changes to the fetch specification – that allow website resources to be packaged and cryptographically signed for redistribution by third parties. Making websites portable, Google contends, facilitates more efficient delivery, easier sharing and offline access.

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