Re: UTA: Server certificate management (Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-uta-email-tls-certs-05.txt>)

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>  * The draft attempts to introduce SRV-ID as a security mechanism
>    for mail services.  SRV-ID does not require DNSSEC, but does
>    require that CAs be able to figure out which service providers
>    are legitimately hosting a given domain.
>
>Is the objection that this is not realistic?  I can see that it
>won't always be an option.  There is a class of service providers
>for whom this is possible, namely those that are also WebPKI CAs.
>So GoDaddy and the like would be able to issue SRV-ID certificates
>for domains they host.  Is that enough to justify including the
>SRV-ID use-case in the draft?

Given the limited number of organizations that are both CAs and mail
hosts, it seems a poor idea to tell people to implement something
which will at best be flaky.

>Or is it the case that you'd prefer text that says that the problem
>has no broadly workable solution in the absence of DNSSEC?

Well, it's true.

R's,
John




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