Re: FYI: proposal for client authentication in TLS

On 8 March 2014 12:43, Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
> - Reference to RFC 5764 (which is some DTLS extension). Did you mean
>   RFC 6347 (DTLS 1.2)?

Yes.  I got my numbers mixed up.

> - "[...]need to authenticate can initial renegotiation, [...]".
>   That sounds odd, should it be "initial" or "initiate"?

"initiate"

> - Under what circumstances server ignores the extension even if it
>   is supported?

When it doesn't want to authenticate.  Maybe it's under DoS attack.
Who knows, that's their business.

> Some points:
> - If the client has other active streams there, away might not be
>   apropirate.

I don't know what you mean here.

> - The 401 www-authenticate header value might contain some information
>   about acceptable client certificates (similarly to TLS
>   CertificateRequest), so the client can pick apropriate cerificate
>   before initiating new connection.

Yes.  That's probably "realm".  But the intent is not to define how a
client might select an appropriate certificate.  The
CertificateRequest contains some info too.

> - The proper client certificate might have been issued by the server
>   or service provoder. Or even be self-signed[1].

As above.

Received on Saturday, 8 March 2014 14:14:13 UTC