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Re: [TLS] What would make TLS cryptographically better for TLS 1.3

Yoav Nir <ynir@checkpoint.com> Tue, 05 November 2013 17:56 UTC

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On Nov 5, 2013, at 5:18 AM, Johannes Merkle <johannes.merkle@secunet.com> wrote:

> Ralf Skyper Kaiser schrieb am 05.11.2013 03:03:
>> A securely configured TLS client would verify the certificate chain.
>> 
>> The server has no way to check if the TLS client is configured securely.
>> The server blindly trusts the client that it is configured securely. That
>> does not scale. Users make mistakes. Users will connect to a service not
>> knowing that the connection is not secure (even over TLS) because they did
>> not configure the TLS correctly.
> 
> I don't see the point. You are referring to a verification of the server's certificate by the client.
> When a client identifies a server, what is the benefit for the server to ensure that the client performs the
> identification in a proper way?

There is a benefit in making the whole ecosystem more secure, and rejecting components that are insecurely configured, because they can compromise the whole system.

I don't think that's enough to justify this kind of thing.

Yoav

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