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Re: [Trans] Angle brackets in the PRIVATE option (Ticket #1)

Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org> Tue, 01 April 2014 20:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Trans] Angle brackets in the PRIVATE option (Ticket #1)
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On 01/04/14 21:26, Rob Stradling wrote:
> Hi Gerv.  I don't think this is desirable.
> 
> Only the domain owner needs to know what the unmasked subdomains are,
> and they can do this by simply looking at the corresponding Certificate.

Does it not help with your combinatorial explosion, because it's then
much easier to match up a potential cert with its logged precert?

Or am I mistaken?

Gerv

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