Re: [kitten] Removing unnecessary and damaging check from RFC4120 section 3.2.3

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Thu, 21 April 2016 00:16 UTC

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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:15:51 -0500
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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Subject: Re: [kitten] Removing unnecessary and damaging check from RFC4120 section 3.2.3
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Oy, the check should be removed and it is unnecessary, but I was wrong
as to what AD puts in the Ticket: it puts the alias, not the canonical
name.  I should have checked that more carefully before posting.

Nico
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