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Re: [Cryptography] PRISM-Proofing and PRISM-Hardening

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Thu Sep 19 16:31:09 2013

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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 21:15:58 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>
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On 18 September 2013 21:47, Viktor Dukhovni <cryptography@dukhovni.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 08:04:04PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
>
> > > This is only realistic with DANE TLSA (certificate usage 2 or 3),
> > > and thus will start to be realistic for SMTP next year (provided
> > > DNSSEC gets off the ground) with the release of Postfix 2.11, and
> > > with luck also a DANE-capable Exim release.
> >
> > What's wrong with name-constrained intermediates?
>
> X.509 name constraints (critical extensions in general) typically
> don't work.
>

No. They typically work. As usual, Apple are the fly in the ointment.

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<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 September 2013 21:47, Viktor Dukhovni <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cryptography@dukhovni.org" target="_blank">cryptography@dukhovni.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 08:04:04PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt; &gt; This is only realistic with DANE TLSA (certificate usage 2 or 3),<br>
&gt; &gt; and thus will start to be realistic for SMTP next year (provided<br>
&gt; &gt; DNSSEC gets off the ground) with the release of Postfix 2.11, and<br>
&gt; &gt; with luck also a DANE-capable Exim release.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; What&#39;s wrong with name-constrained intermediates?<br>
<br>
</div>X.509 name constraints (critical extensions in general) typically<br>
don&#39;t work.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No. They typically work. As usual, Apple are the fly in the ointment.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>

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