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Re: Report on preliminary decision on TLS 1.3 and client auth

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Tue, 20 October 2015 18:13 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
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On 20 October 2015 at 05:31, Jason T. Greene <jason.greene@redhat.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't the semantics be a hell of a lot cleaner, and implementations a lot simpler, if we just pushed this to an HTTP cert auth protocol?

Yes, yes it would.  A better authentication mechanism might be better
still.  But that would be a new protocol.  We have plenty of evidence
to suggest that a new protocol would not be acceptable.  As I said, we
are already at plan B.

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