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Re: Announcing httpsy://, a YURL scheme

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tyler Close)
Mon Jul 14 21:09:44 2003

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From: Tyler Close <tyler@waterken.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:33:16 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3F13327C.EB7A714@safevote.com>

Please read the provided documentation.

On Monday 14 July 2003 18:45, Ed Gerck wrote:
> I did not see the issues of spoofing,

http://www.waterken.com/dev/YURL/Name/

> MITM

http://www.waterken.com/dev/YURL/Definition/#Site_authentication

> and revocation

http://www.waterken.com/dev/YURL/Why/#Certificate_lifecycle_control

> being addressed at all.

Then you simply did not read the documentaion.

> For these threats, however, the attack descriptions are
> well-known and rather easy to carry out.

Then do it. I asked you for the attack steps because you cannot
provide them.

No more hand-waving please. The provided documentation provides
technical detail and examples. I expect counter-arguments to do
the same.

Tyler

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