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Re: [dane] On the PKIX-TA / PKIX-CA question? [ One week WGLC ]

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Tue, 10 December 2013 15:17 UTC

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Ben,
> ...
>
> I'm willing to consider it. But I'm still concerned that without 
> something akin to CT, DANE is more dangerous than the existing PKI.
>
Can you elaborate, without reference to CY :-)? DANE seems preferable 
because the DNS hierarchy constrains the range of names that a node may 
assert (validly), unlike the WebPKI model.

Steve

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