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Re: [TLS] What would make TLS cryptographically better for TLS 1.3

mrex@sap.com (Martin Rex) Tue, 05 November 2013 00:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] What would make TLS cryptographically better for TLS 1.3
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Ralf Skyper Kaiser wrote:
> 
> (An example are jabber servers using TLS. Most clients allow the user to
> accept any server certificate without verification. The jabber server has
> no way to detect which client performed proper certificate verification and
> CN<>URI match).

Huh?

What policy the client applies when checking the server's certificate
chain is none of the server's business.  This is entirely at the
discretion of the client.

-Martin

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