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Re: [TLS] 3rd WGLC for draft-ietf-tls-exported-authenticators

Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> Fri, 05 June 2020 11:29 UTC

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From: Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2020 07:29:13 -0400
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Subject: Re: [TLS] 3rd WGLC for draft-ietf-tls-exported-authenticators
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 9:48 PM Sean Turner <sean@sn3rd.com> wrote:
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> Another reminder ...
>
> > On May 22, 2020, at 09:23, Sean Turner <sean@sn3rd.com> wrote:
> >
> > This is the 3rd WGLC for "Exported Authenticators in TLS" draft available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-exported-authenticator/. The secdir review during IETF LC raised some issues and as a result there have been a couple of new versions. Please respond to the list with any comments by 2359 UTC on 8 June 2020.

 I've implemented earlier drafts. I do have a concern with the
validate API as presented in the draft: it treats empty authenticators
as valid, and then returns the identity as a certificate chain that
must be validated by the application. Similar APIs have lead to easily
foreseeable pwnage. Instead I would recommend the validate API carry
out X509 validation against a trust store or validation function and
treat the empty authenticator as invalid. That way someone has to
think before not checking the certificate returned.

Sincerely,
Watson Ladd

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