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Re: [TLS] Review of PR #209

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Mon, 21 September 2015 00:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Review of PR #209
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On 19 September 2015 at 13:14, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> I think this claim sounds confusing, for (at least) two reasons:
>
>  (a) it interacts oddly with the possibility of > 1 CertificateVerify
>      message -- does it imply that all messages in a TLS session
>      (past and present) are attested to by every client certificate ever
>      sent in the session?

I think that it would have to.  Though I personally think that 1 is
plenty, if there are more and the attestation is retroactive, then it
naturally applies to all of them.

>  (b) it has unclear semantics around session resumption.  If i resume a
>      session and send a ClientCert+CertificateVerify, am i retroactively
>      attesting to all the communications from the previous session(s)?
>      What does that even mean to the server which has already processed
>      the traffic from previous sessions?

I think that could make an argument for attesting to all previous
communications, but it would be easiest to say that it only applies to
the current session.

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