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Re: [OAUTH-WG] client certs and TLS Terminating Reverse Proxies (was Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-oauth-jwt-introspection-response-08.txt)

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 30 October 2019 19:22 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Neil Madden <neil.madden@forgerock.com>
CC: Justin Richer <jricher@mit.edu>, Brian Campbell <bcampbell=40pingidentity.com@dmarc.ietf.org>, oauth <oauth@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [OAUTH-WG] client certs and TLS Terminating Reverse Proxies (was Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-oauth-jwt-introspection-response-08.txt)
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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] client certs and TLS Terminating Reverse Proxies (was Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-oauth-jwt-introspection-response-08.txt)
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If you strip off the TLS, you *still* cannot pass messages around without protecting them as if they had secrets because, well, the header name you are using is secret.  This is not a defense in depth.

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