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Re: [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-subcerts

Benjamin Kaduk <bkaduk@akamai.com> Fri, 15 July 2016 18:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-subcerts
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On 07/15/2016 12:34 PM, Andrei Popov wrote:
>> The I-D actually covers this.
> Understood; the I-D lists a few cons, but arguably none of them are blocking issues. It seems unnecessary to create a new TLS-specific mechanism that duplicates existing PKI semantics.
>

I think the main justification is supposed to be that there's a big
impedance mismatch between the engineering reality of interacting with
PKI CAs and the engineering demands seen in the field.

-Ben

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