Re: (short version) Re: Last Call: <draft-faltstrom-uri-10.txt> (The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) DNS Resource Record) to Proposed Standard

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> On 27 Feb 2015, at 10:56, Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Given a slightly modified example from your document:
> 
>   $ORIGIN example.net.
>   _http._web    IN URI 10 1 "httpS://www.example.com/"
> 
> If the intent here is to declare an equivalence between
> http://example.com and https://www.example.com the problem is that
> absent DNSSEC one is subject to a downgrade attack.  Thus a browser
> cannot trust the equivalence.

Absolutely!

I get that, completely.

I wanted to know what is so special about URI that SRV and MX do _not_ have.

I was surprised I was coming up with some _NEW_ attack vector.

   Patrik

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