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Re: [websec] Issue #41 add parameter indicating whether to hardfail or not

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Fri, 29 June 2012 20:10 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
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Subject: Re: [websec] Issue #41 add parameter indicating whether to hardfail or not
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On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Alexey Melnikov
<alexey.melnikov@isode.com> wrote:
> On 29/06/2012 17:45, Steingruebl, Andy wrote:
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Alexey Melnikov [mailto:alexey.melnikov@isode.com]
>>>
>>> Maybe this is not a good example, but I am thinking that something like
>>> OCSP retrieval failing on the client side is not something that would
>>> show up in the webserver logs.
>>
>> Sure, but doesn't the OCSP site know whether it has set HSTS?
>
> You might be thinking of a different usage of OCSP.
>
> I was thinking about: a browsers gets certificate from TLS. It tries to
> verify it using OCSP against a third party OCSP server. The OCSP server is
> down. Now the website the browser is trying to access is effectively down
> with HSTS enabled.

Right, this is why browsers don't use OCSP.  The problem here is OCSP, not HSTS.

Adam

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