On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 2:57 PM Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Hiya,
>
> On 15/02/2021 22:49, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 2:37 PM Stephen Farrell <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hiya,
> >>
> >> On 15/02/2021 22:31, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> >>> This doesn't sound like a very good idea to me. IMO we should only
> >> specify
> >>> a protocol that authenticates the server.
> >>
> >> Fair enough that that's your preference. How's that gonna
> >> work and be deployable though?
> >>
> >
> > The reason we have WGs is to work out such matters in detail, no? And in
> > particular, I think the WG should try to figure out the problem space
> > before designing.
> >
> > However, it seems like there's a relatively obvious strawman proposal
> here:
> >
> > - We invent some mechanism that allows you to specify in an NS record
> that
> > the server takes TLS (as a hacky example, "servers have to be named
> > <some-sentinel>.example.com").
>
> Wasn't exactly that proposed but shot down already (for
> DNS, not crypto, reasons)? Maybe I'm recalling wrong. I did
> kinda like it mind - the hackiness appeals a bit to me:-)
>

I don't recall. My sense was that people didn't like it being WebPKI rather
than DNSSEC, but maybe there's some more fatal reason? If so, I'd certainly
appreciate a link to that shooting down.

-Ekr
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