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> 1) I propose a simple mechanism to guarantee that a resource located at a certain URL is always the same (...)

You are reinventing ETags.

EGreg on March 5, 2013 [–]

ETags do not have a built-in system to verify arbitrary hashes of the content from different authorities.

Actually both https and httpc rely on authorities and trust. It's an interesting proposal!

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