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Title : TLS extension for Proxies to transfer Server certificate
Author(s) : B. Neelam
Filename : draft-babu-serv-cert-trans-from-proxy-00.txt
Pages :
Date : 2007-8-23
Intercepting transparent proxies splice the client-Server connection
into two connections: Client-Proxy connection, Proxy-server
connection. On Client-Proxy connection, proxy sends it's certificate
to the client. As client is generally (in such a scenario)
pre-configured to accept proxy's certificate, client accepts and
proceeds further with the connection. On Proxy-Server connection,
server sends its certificate to the proxy. Proxy typically doesn't
possess the information (like MX domain name in case of SMTP)
required to validate the certificate. The certificate validation is
at times very complex & hence it is better to offload this
reponsibility to the original client itself.
This document addresses this issue by extending TLS to let proxy
send server's certificate to the client for validation and suggests
how client can indicate certificate validation result to the proxy.
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