On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:28:31AM -0600, Matthew D. Hardeman wrote:
> 
> > On Jan 12, 2018, at 10:20 AM, Gerd v. Egidy <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> I did want to say that if an acceptable mechanism is found in this
> manner, it does help with some but not all in-band TLS validation
> mechanisms.  It works for web server cases.  It does not fully
> replace the mechanisms of the TLS-SNI sort because it would not work
> for other protocols running over TLS (like SMTP/TLS).  The TLS-SNI
> mechanisms do facilitate that.  Still, if the risks are otherwise
> acceptable, such a challenge mechanism might be a path of least
> resistance for those impacted by the TLS-SNI-01 deprecation.

I had actually written code (but ripped it out after LE announced
they are dropping support for TLS-SNI) that supported TLS-SNI
challenges at TLS level. This code relied on being able to detect
validation attempts at ClientHello time and then handling those
connections specially.


-Ilari

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