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Re: [certid] Comments on draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check-04

Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> Wed, 02 June 2010 22:37 UTC

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To: matt@mattmccutchen.net (Matt McCutchen)
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Subject: Re: [certid] Comments on draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check-04
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Matt McCutchen wrote:
> 
> For some test results for implementation support for multiple CNs
> (possibly outdated by now), see:
> 
> http://wiki.cacert.org/VhostTaskForce#Interoperability_Test

Thanks for that link!

I'm puzzled why the list shows IE.  AFAIK, the hostname matching
is entirely performed inside of SChannel SSP
(Microsoft's TLS implementation), and that is a part of the operating
system since at least Windows 2000, and _not_ a part of the MSIE browser.

And even today, the installed base of Windows XP outnumbers the
installed base of Windows Vista and Windows 7 combined, so talking
about particular versions of MSIE instead of specific combinations
of the Windows Operating System plus a particular version of
the MSIE browser is confusing/misleading.


-Martin

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