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On 11/16/2012 11:41 AM, Dean Willis wrote:
> 
> AD asks:
> 
> (12) section 7: I don't see how to send a reference to a certificate - 
> 5.3.4 doesn't seem to allow for that now - wouldn't you need a new 
> CertificateType for that?
> 
> By a reference you mean, e.g., a URL?
> 
> Yeah a URL could be an example. The text says you can send a reference to
> the cert but I don't see a field where I can put e.g. a URL "thus avoiding
> the need to send a certificate" as it says.
> 
> Ekr noted: This appears to be a real defect. I think it's a version skew
> problem. The certificate indicators are hashes, so how does this work?
> 
> EKR responded 6/8/12
> https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/p2psip/current/msg06225.html
> 
> In principle the SecurityBlock structure is designed to work with 
> certificates which are stored in the overlay and then retrieved at
> verification time. In practice, however, the certificates are indexed into
> the security block by Hash(cert) but stored in the overlay under subject,
> so you can't retrieve them from the overlay.
> 
> There seem to be two fixes for this: (1) Modify(add to?) the certificate
> store usage to store certs under the fingerprint so they can be retrieved. 
> (2) Stop claiming that you can fetch the certs and just say that for this
> version you must send the certs with the message.
> 
> Is anyone interested in not sending all the certs with the message? If so,
> we should do (1). Otherwise, we should do (2).
> 
> 
> Okay folks? Which do we do?

I support (2)

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