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Re: [TLS] [certid] review of draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check-09

"Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov> Wed, 22 September 2010 22:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] [certid] review of draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check-09
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On Sep 22, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

>   2.  A human user has explicitly agreed to trust a service that
>       provides mappings of source domains to target domains, such as a
>       dedicated discovery service or an identity service that securely
>       redirects requests from the source domain to a target domain
>       (however, such an arrangement is not encouraged and if a client
>       supports such a service then it needs to disable it by default
>       and carefully warn the user about the possible negative
>       consequences of trusting such a service).


Pure wordsmithing.  Make sure this still says what you want:

2.  A human user has explicitly agreed to trust a service that provides mapping of source domains to target domains.  For example the user may trust a dedicated discovery service or identity service that securely redirects requests from the source to a target domain.  

Such an arrangement is not encouraged.  If a client supports such a service then it needs to disable it by default, and it MUST carefully warn the user about the possible negative consequences of trusting such a service.
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