Re: CSP: Drop IP-matching? (was Re: [CSP] URI/IRI normalization and comparison)

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org> wrote:

> Brad Hill <hillbrad@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Public CAs are only to stop issuing for IP addresses in reserved ranges,
> I
> > believe. (10.0.0.0, 171.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0, 127.0.0.1)
>
> Yes, unfortunately, that does seem to be the case.
>
> I still think it is fine for CSP to restrict itself to 127.0.0.1 and ::1.
>

I think that's theoretically sound. It's not clear to me that we can
actually do it, since we've been accepting ip addresses for the last ~2
years. I'll add some metrics to Chrome to see if usage is widespread enough
to worry about, or whether we can tighten things up without too many
worries.

-mike

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