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Re: [websec] handling STS header field extendability

Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> Fri, 10 August 2012 21:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [websec] handling STS header field extendability
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On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:09 PM, =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com> wrote:

> The only extensions we'd discussed in the past were the CertPinning, LockCA,
> LockEV.  We've decided that cert pinning is an intersecting but orthogonal
> policy to HSTS, and thus best handled at this point via a separate header
> field.
> Also, the various LockFoo notions should be addressed in a cert pinning
> policy
> context (i mentioned this in the WG session at IETF-82 Taipei).

Please forgive my ignorance, but do LockCA and/or LockEV offer any
functionality that you can't already get with public key pinning as
currently specified? You can pin to a given CA's public key(s), and
you can pin to any given EV issuers' public keys.

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