Re: [websec] separate pinning header (was: Pinning and beyond...)

Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg> Sat, 15 October 2011 00:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [websec] separate pinning header (was: Pinning and beyond...)
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On 14 October 2011 18:05, =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com> wrote:
> from <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-evans-palmer-hsts-pinning-00> :
>
> Thoughts?

I agree.  Separating it into a header may also enable it to find its
way into other protocols that travel over TLS, and reuse some of the
same parsing/validation code.

-tom