Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf-urnbis-rfc2141bis-urn-21: (with COMMENT)
Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 02 March 2017 12:21 UTC
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Subject: Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf-urnbis-rfc2141bis-urn-21: (with COMMENT)
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On 02/03/17 12:14, Martin J. Dürst wrote: > > > On 2017/03/02 17:11, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> >> Hiya, >> >> On 02/03/17 03:14, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > >>> Perhaps you could clarify what some of your concerns are here, above and >>> beyond the use of URIs in general (after all, a URN is a URI). Reading >>> between the lines, I imagine you might be worried that URNs within a >>> particular URN namespace (e.g., for U.S. Social Security Numbers or the >>> like) - once suitably resolved into one or more URLs - might enable an >>> attacker to determine a person's physical location (e.g., via IP >>> address) or actual identity (e.g., a pseudonym could "resolve" to a real >>> name). Are these guesses on the mark? >> >> Yep. Perhaps things like including an IMSI or IMEI (or >> values easily correlated with such) in the NSS part is >> what it'd useful to call out. I'm not sure if there are >> real examples of such in existing URNs but if there were > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7254/history/ Thanks Martin - I had a feeling there was something I'd forgotten (or maybe tried to forget;-). That is a good example though. Cheers, S. > > Regards, Martin. > >> it'd be a fine thing to note that including such things >> imposes (often unmet) requirements for e.g. confidentiality >> on protocols and applications that use those URNs. If >> may also be useful to say that things like hashing the >> privacy sensitive value before inclusion in the URN don't >> prevent correlation and can be as "good" for re-identification >> as the non-hashed value. >
- [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf-urn… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… Hakala, Juha E
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… Martin J. Dürst
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… Martin J. Dürst
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… Martin J. Dürst
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… John C Klensin
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… John C Klensin
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… John C Klensin
- Re: [urn] Stephen Farrell's Abstain on draft-ietf… Peter Saint-Andre