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[websec] FYI: related drafts on securing TSL and certificates

Tobias Gondrom <tobias.gondrom@gondrom.org> Thu, 15 December 2011 05:48 UTC

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Subject: [websec] FYI: related drafts on securing TSL and certificates
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Hello,

<hat="individual">

this is only fyi, but possibly noteworthy:
recently I came across two other articles aiming at making TLS/SSL more 
secure:
1. a draft from Ben Laurie and Adam Langley "Certificate Authority 
Transparency and Auditability"
www.links.org/files/CertificateAuthorityTransparencyandAuditability.pdf

2. and another proposal from EFF on "Sovereign Keys: A Proposal to Make 
HTTPS and Email More Secure"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/11/sovereign-keys-proposal-make-https-and-email-more-secure

To oversimplify, both add some kind of certificate log stored at other 
sources - though differently.
 From my perspective this does not conflict with but could complement 
the current pinning and HSTS approach.

Best regards,

Tobias

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