Re: [TLS] Session Lifetime

"Steingruebl, Andy" <asteingruebl@paypal-inc.com> Mon, 29 November 2010 18:05 UTC

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From: "Steingruebl, Andy" <asteingruebl@paypal-inc.com>
To: Seth David Schoen <schoen@eff.org>, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:05:42 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tls-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:tls-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Seth
> David Schoen
> 
> One concern is that resumed sessions work like cookies to identify users, but
> users may not have convenient ways to control them as they can control
> cookies.  There has been recent concern about browser functionality that is
> equivalent to HTTP cookies but not subject to user control like cookies.

Isn't this implementable purely as a client-side control though?  It isn't a question for the spec, and isn't something that the client and server should really negotiate.  Now, being transparent as a policy choice, ok, and maybe that is all you were answering?

- Andy