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Re: [TLS] User Defined Key Pair

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 25 June 2013 11:29 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
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Ø  Self signed certificate is very dangerous because the user will not have a way to verify the identity of the certificate owner and he could be a victim to a man in the middle attack.

I don't see anything in your system that prevents this, either.  It seems that replacing your system with self-signed client certificates would be equivalent.

It's great that you are trying to improve things; don't get discouraged, but this ain't there yet.  And as a first step to replacing all of SSL/TLS?  Nope.

                /r$

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