Re: [TLS] [OPSEC] Call For Adoption: draft-wang-opsec-tls-proxy-bp

Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Thu, 30 July 2020 00:48 UTC

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From: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:48:06 -0700
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Subject: Re: [TLS] [OPSEC] Call For Adoption: draft-wang-opsec-tls-proxy-bp
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 5:36 PM Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:

> I'm by no means denying the fact that MITM boxen
>> are deployed, but the idea that some of them are
>> "conformant" and some are not seems bogus.
>>
>
> Well, they are either conformant with the text of 8446 S 9.3 or they are
> not (and just to be clear, being conformant with 9.3 does not make them
> good for the reason indicated above).
>

This argument doesn't seem baseless, but I think these MITM documents also
presume IETF consensus on the current PKI system, and I am not sure that
has ever been tested.

thanks,
Rob