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Re: Review of draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Tue, 14 September 2010 22:16 UTC

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On 9/14/10 1:58 AM, Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Tue Sep 14 01:03:39 2010, Stefan Santesson wrote:
>
>> - If you just check the dNSName, you will miss the fact that you talk
>> to the
>> desiganted ldap server and not the xmpp server (even if that
>> information is
>> in the cert).
>>
>>
> Kind of. The rules effectively mean that dNSName is treated as a sRVName
> with a wildcard service type, as I understand it.

That's a good way to put it.

Peter

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