Re: [Webpush] Alexey Melnikov's No Objection on draft-ietf-webpush-vapid-03: (with COMMENT)

Costin Manolache <costin@gmail.com> Tue, 15 August 2017 17:56 UTC

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From: Costin Manolache <costin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:56:50 -0700
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To: Alexey Melnikov <aamelnikov@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: [Webpush] Alexey Melnikov's No Objection on draft-ietf-webpush-vapid-03: (with COMMENT)
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IMHO out-of-band discovery may be sufficient - in webpush it is implicit or
can be part of the
subscribe handshake. If VAPID is used with an API the supported auth may be
part of the API
schema/discovery.

I think in future it may be valuable to add an optional certificate -
either as an extra header or parameter -
to allow authentication without a database RT. In such mode a mechanism to
discover supported
roots may be needed - however it can also be done out-of-band.

B

Costin


On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Alexey Melnikov <aamelnikov@fastmail.fm>
wrote:

> Alexey Melnikov has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-webpush-vapid-03: No Objection
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> I have cleared my DISCUSS based on changes in git.
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> I am looking forward to continuing discussion about advertising support
> for the
> "vapid" authentication scheme in WWW-Authenticate:
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> In Section 3, 3rd para:
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>    This authentication scheme does not require a challenge.  Clients are
>    able to generate the Authorization header field without any
>    additional information from a server.  Therefore, a challenge for
>    this authentication scheme MUST NOT be sent in a WWW-Authenticate
>    header field.
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> Does this mean that there is no way to discover whether a particular server
> supports "vapid" HTTP authentication scheme?
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