Re: [lamps] New drafts available - non-composite hybrid authentication, and binding certs

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 05 April 2022 15:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [lamps] New drafts available - non-composite hybrid authentication, and binding certs
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aebecke@uwe.nsa.gov <aebecke@uwe.nsa.gov> wrote:
    > The use case may not be limited to only PQ certificates, but it is the
    > main motivation of this work. It may support the scenarios you've
    > described, but that is really an off-label benefit and not the intended
    > use.

Yes, I understand, but if it provides an immediate ROI then it will get the
new code paths and new error situations tested sooner, and I think that has
value.

    > Regarding policies- this extension could be useful in a number of
    > protocols and potentially for various use cases, since it is really a
    > tool to facilitate with certificate ownership assertion. Because of
    > that, we may want to refrain from making too many normative statements
    > about policy, because we anticipate that policy surrounding this
    > extension may not be uniform, even for the single use case we specify.

If the policy is non-uniform, then that makes specifying the policies even
more important.

It's not enough to present a sad-face emoji to an end user, and give them
nothing useful communicate to/through their support mechanisms.


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