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Re: [TLS] Summary of discussion regarding spontaneuous authentication

Joseph Salowey <joe@salowey.net> Tue, 28 October 2014 04:52 UTC

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From: Joseph Salowey <joe@salowey.net>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Summary of discussion regarding spontaneuous authentication
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 27 October 2014 21:27, Joseph Salowey <joe@salowey.net> wrote:
> > While I'm not a huge fan of the certificate authorities list, I'm not
> sure
> > that punting this to the application layer is the right thing to do.
>
> Would you be interested perhaps in an optional TLS extension that
> allows both client and server to express something about what they are
> willing to consider as being authoritative?
>

[Joe] Yes, I was thinking this would be the way to go, especially if there
was interest in this for multiple protocols.

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