A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Web Security Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP
Author(s) : Chris Evans
Chris Palmer
Filename : draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-03.txt
Pages : 17
Date : 2012-10-16
Abstract:
This memo describes an extension to the HTTP protocol allowing web
host operators to instruct user agents (UAs) to remember ("pin") the
hosts' cryptographic identities for a given period of time. During
that time, UAs will require that the host present a certificate chain
including at least one Subject Public Key Info structure whose
fingerprint matches one or more of the pinned fingerprints for that
host. By effectively reducing the scope of authorities who can
authenticate the domain during the lifetime of the pin, pinning may
reduce the incidence of man-in-the-middle attacks due to compromised
Certification Authorities and other authentication errors and
attacks.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning
There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-03
A diff from the previous version is available at:
http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-03
Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
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