Re: [Acme] Specify account by kid (reg URL) rather than key. #193

2016-10-25 Thread Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
On 10/02/2016 08:40 AM, Richard Barnes wrote: > the need to provide a valid signature provided some minimal validation > of the request that could be performed totally statelessly by the server. This would only filter out requests that are otherwise well-formed, but have a bad signature, which are

Re: [Acme] Specify account by kid (reg URL) rather than key. #193

2016-09-26 Thread Martin Thomson
I am inclined to think that this is a good change, on the basis that it means that the server is minting the identifiers that the client uses. I think that Jacob is probably understating the potential for bugs here. And key canonicalization is a bad smell. On 27 September 2016 at 14:51, Jacob

Re: [Acme] Specify account by kid (reg URL) rather than key. #193

2016-09-26 Thread Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
I understand the concern, but I think that clients already have to store a significant amount of state: the ACME directory URL, the private key, and the domain names, certificates, and private keys of existing certificates. I think that one more item, the account URL, is not a heavy burden,