Re: [perpass] CDNs as wiretaps [Unauthenticated, ephemeral keying in HTTP/1.0 without TLS]

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Mon, 25 November 2013 14:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [perpass] CDNs as wiretaps [Unauthenticated, ephemeral keying in HTTP/1.0 without TLS]
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Iain,

You're right, but there the Basic Constraints extension can be used to limit
the length of the cert chain, and thus minimize the problem.

Steve