Re: [TLS] Certificate compression draft

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Tue, 07 March 2017 03:33 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 14:33:07 +1100
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Certificate compression draft
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On 7 March 2017 at 13:32, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> wrote:
> Fewer WebPKI CAs (which are all trusted) seems like an improvement to me.
> Though I doubt that compression efficiency would be a major factor in such
> an outcome.

Like Ryan, I would rather not create any systemic biases in favour of
certain parties, however minor we each subjectively believe those
biases might be.