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Re: Client Certificates - re-opening discussion

Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Fri, 18 September 2015 21:00 UTC

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From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Henry Story <henry.story@co-operating.systems>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 01:48:50PM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Henry,
> >
> > Thanks, but this is a much more narrowly-scoped discussion -- how to make
> > client certs as they currently operate work in HTTP/2.
> 
> 
> Is this a question about HTTP/2's limitations versus HTTP/1.1 or about
> deficiencies
> in HTTP/1.1 that HTTP/2 has not fixed?

I think this is about the extra limitations of HTTP/2 regarding client
authentication caused by major design differences between HTTP/1.1 and
HTTP/2.

Client certs in HTTP/1.1 aren't too great, but at least those don't
seem to even remotely have the same problems as client certs in HTTP/2
(especially when in web environment).


-Ilari

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