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Re: [TLS] Update spec to match current practices for certificate chain order

"Kemp, David P." <DPKemp@missi.ncsc.mil> Fri, 08 May 2015 15:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Update spec to match current practices for certificate chain order
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Martin Rex wrote:
> Clients do not have to accomodate server that violate MUSTS.

Absolutely correct.   Accommodating a compliant server is the only mandatory to implement requirement on clients.

> In most cases, it is detrimental and often dangerous to work around
> such protocol violations by the peer.

How ???

> Either the certification path presented by the server crosses through
> the trust anchor(s) of the client or ends there -- then you get interop,
> or it doesn't then you get interop failure.

Clients that provide value-added (optional) path construction functionality do not fail, either operationally or security-wise.   Perhaps no such clients exist, now or in the future.  But if they do, satisfying more than the MUSTS does not make them non-compliant.

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