Re: [Acme] Just the technical comments (was: ACME draft is now in WGLC.)

Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <jsha@eff.org> Tue, 07 March 2017 01:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Acme] Just the technical comments (was: ACME draft is now in WGLC.)
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On 03/06/2017 04:21 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> I don't mean as anything.  The question is simply whether it does or
> not.  It might make it easier to construct a valid response, though
> I'm not sure that has reads on the ability of an attacker to generate
> a valid response given the challenge structure.
No, the server is not defined to send a Referer header. I think it's not
needed.