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[TLS] Consensus on PR 169 - relax certificate list requirements

Joseph Salowey <joe@salowey.net> Wed, 26 August 2015 21:11 UTC

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Subject: [TLS] Consensus on PR 169 - relax certificate list requirements
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It looks like we have good consensus on PR 169 to relax certificate list
ordering requirements.  I had one question on the revised text.  I'm
unclear on the final clause in this section:

"Because certificate validation requires that trust anchors be distributed
independently, a self-signed certificate that specifies a trust anchor MAY
be omitted from the chain, provided that supported peers are known to
possess any omitted certificates they may require."

I just want to make sure there isn't the intention of omitting certificates
that are not seif-signed.

Thanks,

Joe

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