Re: [rtcweb] IdP in RTCWeb

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Thu, 22 March 2012 17:54 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:53:42 +0100
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] IdP in RTCWeb
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Good question.

1. BrowserID certificates aren't X.509, and that's all the TLS/DTLS will do.
2. This lets us be agnostic about IdP mechanisms without having to change
TLS every time we add a new one.

-Ekr


On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Igor Faynberg
<igor.faynberg@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> A question:  For the case of BrowserID, I understand that a client gets a
> certificate from an IdP.   If so, why you and I would not use the
> certificates from our respective IdPs in order to authenticate each other
>  in DTLS?
>
> Igor
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