[Trans] draft-linus-trans-gossip-ct-01: gossiping STHs
Ben Laurie <benl@google.com> Tue, 24 March 2015 21:48 UTC
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Subject: [Trans] draft-linus-trans-gossip-ct-01: gossiping STHs
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It seems to me that the I-D is missing a trick: everyone should gossip STHs. They are the bedrock on which CT is founded. If TLS clients and servers send each other STHs, then realistically, there is no privacy issue: everyone has all STHs. If you don't maximally gossip STHs you make forks easier.