On 2014-06-11 03:24, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Matt Miller and I submitted a new version of draft-ietf-dane-srv today.

Why does the text it Section 3 say to do queries in parallel when
section 3.2 says that one has to do A/AAAA lookups and validation (which
depend on SRV) before deciding to do TLSA lookups?

And what does the security status of A/AAAA records matter if you have a
secure reference to the certificate you see?  Unless of course if you
get bogus, then aborting the connection to that target is sane.

> 
>    SRV is secure:  The reference identifiers SHALL include both the
>       service domain and the SRV target server host name (e.g., include
>       both "im.example.com" and "xmpp23.hosting.example.net").  The
>       target server host name is the preferred name for TLS SNI or its
>       equivalent.

In XMPP, sending to='xmpp123.hosting.example.net' instead of
to='example.com' does not seem sensible to me.  The server should know
which cert to present for each domain, or probably just shows the same
for all if it is a multi-tenant hosting service.

And I don't think one should look too hard at the name in a certificate
if you have a matching TLSA record.

--
Kim "Zash" Alvefur

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