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Re: [TLS] Summary of discussion regarding spontaneuous authentication

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 22 October 2014 13:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Summary of discussion regarding spontaneuous authentication
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On 22 October 2014 05:53, Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
>
> CertificateRequest has fields certificate_types and
> supported_signature_algorithms (there's also third field, but IMO
> that's better sent at application level). Where is the equivalent
> data put?

At the application layer.

These fields, as specified, are not particularly useful in the general
sense.  The suggestion was that these are not valuable:
certificate_types is pretty much either known a priori (or assumed to
be X.509) and signatures have a similarly limited set of options.

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