[TLS] n00b question regarding TLS-OBC

Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren@telia.com> Fri, 25 October 2013 14:34 UTC

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Subject: [TLS] n00b question regarding TLS-OBC
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If I understand it correctly TLS-OBC uses TLS CCA (Client Certificate Authentication) .

But IMO TLS CCA has a number of thorny issues like:

- TLS CCA  is incompatible with the traditional web session model
   since TLS sessions run independently of web sessions

- TLS CCA lacks a logout mechanism

- Currently there is no support for TLS session management in for example Java Servlets
 
- A bunch of rather tricky and browser-specific workarounds for coping with the
  mentioned issues makes HTTPS CCA integration in web applications complex and
  error-prone

Does this not apply to TLS OBC as well?
I like the idea very much though so I hope that I'm dead-wrong :-)

Anders