Re: #549: augmented security considerations in p1

On Jan 31, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

>>  The "https" scheme (Section 2.7.2) is intended to prevent (or at
>>  least reveal) many of these potential attacks on establishing
>>  authority, assuming the negotiated TLS connection is secured in a way
>>  that verifies the communicating server's identity matches the target
>>  URI's authority component (see [RFC2818] and [Georgiev]).
> 
> Given the state of the world, this seems like a huge assumption — can we at least acknowledge that here be dragons as well?

Yep, the paper by Georgiev et al. is a catalog of dragons with real
examples and suggestions.  I will split that into two sentences so
that the reason to look at the paper is clear.

....Roy

Received on Saturday, 1 February 2014 09:43:07 UTC