RE: draft-turner-caclearanceconstraints-01.txt

"Santosh Chokhani" <SChokhani@cygnacom.com> Fri, 24 October 2008 14:19 UTC

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Subject: RE: draft-turner-caclearanceconstraints-01.txt
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:51:31 -0400
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Stefan,

As stated in other strands of this thread, this will be handled by
enhancing the I-D for a specific set of syntaxes of security categories
or by deprecating the security categories from the clearance
constraints.  The latter can obviate the need for taking the
intersection of security categories.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf-pkix@mail.imc.org [mailto:owner-ietf-pkix@mail.imc.org]
On Behalf Of Stefan Santesson
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 9:27 AM
To: Timothy J. Miller; Russ Housley
Cc: ietf-pkix@imc.org
Subject: RE: draft-turner-caclearanceconstraints-01.txt


Thanks for putting such good words to it :)

Yes, that sounds very much like what I meant.

Stefan Santesson
Senior Program Manager
Windows Security, Standards


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy J. Miller [mailto:tmiller@mitre.org]
> Sent: den 24 oktober 2008 15:23
> To: Russ Housley
> Cc: Stefan Santesson; ietf-pkix@imc.org
> Subject: Re: draft-turner-caclearanceconstraints-01.txt
>
> Russ Housley wrote:
>
> > Where does the document say anything about mapping between security
> > policies?
>
> I don't think that's what he means.  I think what he's driving at is:
> how does a single vendor writing a single chaining library do it such
> that the code works under any arbitrary intersection logic the end
user
> may specify?
>
> Did I get that right, Stefan?
>
> -- Tim