Re: [W3C Web Security IG] Strews report - phase 2

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Ryan Sleevi
<ryan-w3-web-security@sleevi.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 10:57 am, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>  The treatment of DNS and the section on DNSSEC is very good. It makes
>>  a lot of good points on why browsers are not using information from
>>  DNS for things like CA (CAA Resource Records) and public key pinsets
>>  (SSHFP-like resource records specifying pinsets).
>
> Clarification: CAA is not intended to be used by browsers, and this was
> actively discussed during its standardization. Its intended for use by
> CAs.
>
> I suspect you may have meant DANE (which is for clients).
Actually, NO.

Its security specific context information. I'm happy to use any
security specific context information I can get my hands on.

Jeff

Received on Monday, 18 May 2015 18:24:19 UTC