Re: [TLS] TLS Proxy Server Extension

[Ralph Holz <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

> It would be most correct to describe the goals of the draft as
> establishing a pair of confidential and authenticated data streams
> between C/P and P/S, while having a three-party entitiy
> authentication.   I think a good way to describe the goal would be:
> multiparty entity authentication with pairwise key establishment.

On a related note, the following patent has just been brought to my
attention:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=MjTHAAAAEBAJ

In essence, what is proposed is that a client consents to monitoring of
its TLS connection. The assignee is Bluecoat - they sell TLS proxies,
among other things.

Ralph