Re: Standardizing Firefox's Implementation of Link Fingerprints
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Tue, 03 July 2007 09:13 UTC
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From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
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Subject: Re: Standardizing Firefox's Implementation of Link Fingerprints
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"Edward Lee" <edilee@mozilla.com> writes: > https://people.mozilla.com/~edilee/draft-lee-uri-linkfingerprints-00.txt I believe standardizing this would be useful. There is another use case for this idea: referencing X.509 certificates. Some protocols -- TLS client_certificate_url extension, and the DNS CERT resource record -- already have support for something similar, where a URL needs to be accompanied with a hash in order to be useful. Placing the hash value in the URL itself is a simple improvement, and will simplify future protocols that want to do similar things as TLS/CERT. These future protocols can have only a URL field, and require that the URL contains a linkfingerprint. An origin of the hash-value-in-URL idea is the WTLS, if you can find a reference to it, it may be useful to add a informative reference to it. There may be other similar examples too, but I don't know of any earlier one. /Simon
- Standardizing Firefox's Implementation of Link Fi… Edward Lee
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