[certid] Fwd: Re: [xmpp] #74: user acceptance of non-matching presented identities

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Tue, 22 June 2010 02:43 UTC

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Subject: [certid] Fwd: Re: [xmpp] #74: user acceptance of non-matching presented identities
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Another forward from ongoing XMPP discussion...

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [xmpp] #74: user acceptance of non-matching presented
identities
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:42:07 -0600
From: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>
To: xmpp@ietf.org

On 6/21/10 8:40 PM, xmpp issue tracker wrote:
> #74: user acceptance of non-matching presented identities
> --------------------------------+-------------------------------------------
>  Reporter:  stpeter@…           |       Owner:  stpeter@…         
>      Type:  defect              |      Status:  new               
>  Priority:  minor               |   Milestone:                    
> Component:  3920bis             |     Version:                    
>  Severity:  In WG Last Call     |    Keywords:                    
> --------------------------------+-------------------------------------------
>  Section 13.7.2.1.1 states in part:
> 
>  > Sub-Case #3:  The server's certificate includes no presented
>  > identity that matches the reference identity to which the
>  > entity attempted to connect but a human user has permanently
>  > accepted the certificate during a previous connection attempt;
> 
>  Ben Campbell commented: "This needs to be associated with the identity the
>  use was trying to reach when she accepted the cert in the first place,
>  right? That is, if some other server offers the same cert, it's not
>  automatically accepted, right?"

Correct. This should be covered in draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check
(but I don't think it is currently, so I'll forward this message to the
certid@ietf.org list).

Peter

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