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RFC 7711
Title: PKIX over Secure HTTP (POSH)
Author: M. Miller,
P. Saint-Andre
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: November 2015
Mailbox: mamille2@cisco.com,
peter@andyet.com
Pages: 18
Characters: 41302
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-xmpp-posh-06.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7711
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7711
Experience has shown that it is difficult to deploy proper PKIX
certificates for Transport Layer Security (TLS) in multi-tenanted
environments. As a result, domains hosted in such environments often
deploy applications using certificates that identify the hosting
service, not the hosted domain. Such deployments force end users and
peer services to accept a certificate with an improper identifier,
resulting in degraded security. This document defines methods that
make it easier to deploy certificates for proper server identity
checking in non-HTTP application protocols. Although these methods
were developed for use in the Extensible Messaging and Presence
Protocol (XMPP) as a Domain Name Association (DNA) prooftype, they
might also be usable in other non-HTTP application protocols.
This document is a product of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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