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Re: [TLS] TLS-OBC proposal

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 07 September 2011 21:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS-OBC proposal
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Anders Rundgren
<anders.rundgren@telia.com> wrote:
> I'm a little hesitant (from a deployment point-of-view) about mucking
> around in the TLS layer.  Wouldn't it be possible to achieve this
> anyway web-only functionality with more "webbish" methods?  Not as
> clean but it would probably be easier rolling out.

I'm certainly a fan of webbish methods, as you put it.  For an example
of this see http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-williams-rest-gss-00

Nico
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