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Re: [certid] What security does SRV-ID add when DNS-ID will always match?

Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> Wed, 30 March 2011 21:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [certid] What security does SRV-ID add when DNS-ID will always match?
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On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 17:45 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 23:00 +0200, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > Jeff and I, and our responsible AD,
> > were simply not comfortable with performing such major surgery during
> > AUTH48.
> 
> Sure.  But the alternative is to release the spec with the issue
> unresolved and potentially have to later deal with a mess of SRV-ID
> clients that achieve suboptimal interoperability and/or security.  Do
> you judge that the first evil is lesser?

Sorry, s/first/second/.

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Matt

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